Lindumusa Bekizitha Gabriel Ndabandaba (born 14 April 1935) is a retired South African politician and academic who served in the National Assembly and KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature from 1999 to 2014.
As a representative of the ANC, Ndabandaba served under Premier S'bu Ndebele as MEC for Agriculture and Environmental Affairs from 2004 to 2006 and as Deputy Speaker of the KwaZulu-Natal Legislature from 2006 to 2009.
[5] He said that his priorities in the portfolio would be improving matriculation results, raising teachers' morale, and "restoring dignity to the department" after the controversies presided over by his predecessors.
Ndabandaba said that his departure was motivated in large part by the conduct of Premier Mtshali, who he said had "humiliated me every step of the way", preventing him from making decisions about the education portfolio and even from hiring staff at his office.
I have joined the ranks of those who, when we were naked among the wolves, decided to stand up against the apartheid colonial tyranny... My humiliation, harassment and the stifling of all my creativity and initiatives by Mtshali were the final straw that broke the camel's back.
The ANC's S'bu Ndebele, who succeeded Mtshali as Premier, appointed Ndabandaba to his Executive Council as MEC for Agriculture and Environmental Affairs.
[13] He was replaced as MEC by Mtholephi Mthimkhulu and served the rest of the term as Deputy Speaker of the KwaZulu-Natal Legislature, deputising Willies Mchunu.