laNgolotsheni (Lomawa) Ndwandwe[1] (died September 1938) was the Ndlovukati (queen mother) of Swaziland, the wife of King Ngwane V, and the mother of King Sobhuza II.
[9] Her siblings included her full sister (and ultimately, co-wife) Nukwase Ndwandwe, who succeeded her as Ndlovukati,[10] and her brother Benjamin Nxumalo, who later provided counsel to Sobhuza II.
[7][8][11] As a descendant of La Zidze and as the daughter of a respected chief, Ndwandwe was selected by the council of elders as the main wife for Ngwane V.[1][12] Following the death of Ngwane V, Ndwandwe was selected from among his widows, by the council of elders, as the next Ndlovukati, and her infant son Nkhotfotjeni was named King Sobhuza II.
[13] She was also sympathetic to a nearby Zionist Separatist church whose local leader espoused political views that overlapped strongly with her own.
[13] The question of which denomination Ndwandwe identified with was, in any case, not of significance to Sobhuza II, who was critical of divisions between sects.