Sibongile Ndlela-Simelane was Minister for Health for
Eswatini
Eswatini, formally the Kingdom of Eswatini, also known by its former official names Swaziland and the Kingdom of Swaziland, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. It is bordered by South Africa on all sides except the northeast, where i ...
from 2013 to 2018 under the government of
Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini
Prince Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini (15 May 1942 – 28 September 2018) was a Swazi politician who served as List of Prime Ministers of Eswatini, Prime Minister of Eswatini, from 1996 to 2003 and again from October 2008 to September 2018.
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During her time as minister she led calls for lessons from southern Africa's HIV response to be applied to malaria. She also commissioned on
World TB Day in 2017 a national
drug resistance
Drug resistance is the reduction in effectiveness of a medication such as an antimicrobial or an antineoplastic in treating a disease or condition. The term is used in the context of resistance that pathogens or cancers have "acquired", that is ...
survey. In 2018 she requested the arrest of an ''
Eswatini Observer'' journalist who had photographed the cars of government ministers. She also commissioned new offices for the Swaziland Nursing Council.
In 2022, she was appointed Chairperson of the Eswatini Communications Commission (ESSCOM).
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.
References
External links
Sihlwitsa Likusasa Episode 3 With Sibongile Ndlela-Simelane{{DEFAULTSORT:Ndlela-Simelane, Sibongile
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Health ministers of Eswatini
Women government ministers of Eswatini
21st-century women politicians