Sibongile Ndlela-Simelane was Minister for Health for Eswatini from 2013 to 2018 under the government of Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini.
[1][2][3][4] During her time as minister she led calls for lessons from southern Africa's HIV response to be applied to malaria.
[5] She also commissioned on World TB Day in 2017 a national drug resistance survey.
[6] In 2018 she requested the arrest of an Eswatini Observer journalist who had photographed the cars of government ministers.
[1] Ndlela-Simelane grew up in a single-parent family and announced in 2015 at Bulandzeni Church of the Nazarene that she had never met her father.