Tibati Madvolomafisha Nkambule (d. 1895), was the Queen Regent and Indlovukati of

Swaziland 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 ...

from 1889 until 1894 during the minority of her grandson king Ngwane V. She was married to Mswati II (d. 1868), and the queen mother of her son King Mbandzeni (Dlamini IV) in 1875-1889. Tibati has been called "strong, traditionalist and well respected among her peers".Hugh Gillis, ''The Kingdom of Swaziland: Studies in Political History'', 1999, Greenwood Publishing Group, page 82 She led the country during the tumultuous period before the kingdom was placed under the administration of the

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in 1894.

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