father predecessor successor succession house mother death_date death_place buried regent consort birth_date coronation issue article_title name reign
mswati ii ludvonga ii ngwane v king of swaziland house of dlamini nandzi nkambule 1889 mbekelweni mbilaneni queen tsandzile ndwandwe queen tsandzile ndwandwe labotsibeni mdluli 1855 1875 ngwane v mbandzeni
 dlamini iv 1875 -- 1889
mbandzeni

mbandzeni -lrb- also known as dlamini iv , umbandine , umbandeen -rrb- -lrb- 1855 -- 1889 -rrb- was the king of swaziland from 1875 until 1889 .
ingwenyama mbandzeni was the son of mswati ii and nandzi nkambule .
his mother the wife of king mswati had died when he was still very young .
mbandzeni ascended to the throne after his half brother ludvonga ii died before he could become the king .
ludvonga 's death resulted in his mother inkhosikati lamgangeni adopting mbandzeni who was motherless as her son , thus making him king and her the queen mother of swaziland .
his royal capital was at mbekelweni .
during his kingship mbandzeni , granted many mining , farming , trading and administrative concessions to white settlers from britain and the transvaal .
these concessions granted with the help of offy sherpstone eventually led to the conventions of 1884 and 1894 , which reduced the overall borders of swaziland and later made swaziland a protectorate of the south african republic .
mbandzeni , still in command of a large swazi army of more than 15000 men aided the british in defeating sekhukhune in 1879 and preventing zulu incursion into the transvaal during the same year .
as a result , he guaranteed his country 's independence and international recognition despite the scramble for africa which was taking place at the time .
mbandzeni died after illness in 1889 and said on his deathbed '' `` the swazi kingship dies with me '' '' .
he was buried at the royal cemetery at mbilaneni alongside his father and grandfather sobhuza i. mbandzeni was succeeded by his young son mahlokohla and his wife queen labotsibeni mdluli after a 5 year regency of queen tibati nkambule .
today a number of buildings and roads in swaziland are named after mbandzeni .
among these the mbandzeni house in mbabane and the mbandzeni highway to siteki are named after him .
