Princess Sibuyiselwe Angela Buthelezi (18 May 1969 – 21 October 2024) was a South African politician and member of the

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, representing the

Inkatha Freedom Party The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP; ) is a conservative political party in South Africa, which is a part of the current South African Third Cabinet of Cyril Ramaphosa, government of national unity together with the African National Congress (ANC). A ...

from 2021 until her death. Born into the Buthelezi royal family, she was the daughter of Prince

Mangosuthu Buthelezi Prince Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi (; 27 August 1928 – 9 September 2023) was a South African politician and Zulu people, Zulu prince who served as the traditional prime minister to the Zulu royal family from 1954 until his death in 2023. He ...

, the

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of the Buthelezi clan and Traditional Prime Minister of the

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. In the National Assembly she sat on the tourism, cooperative governance and traditional affairs, human settlements, and the water and sanitation portfolio committees. Buthelezi died at a hospital in

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, on 21 October 2024, at the age of 55. She was survived by her only child, Princess Ntandoyenkosi Nkeiruka.

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