Phindiwe Sangweni

Phindiwe Dlamini-Sangweni (born 2 December 1963, as HRH Princess Phindiwe Rita Dlamini) is a South African attorney and businesswoman. She is currently a member of the African National Congress and is CEO of Siyakhuluma Consultancy, a private company. Phindiwe is a Principal Princess of the Nhlangwini royal family and is a cousin of Mswati III, King of Swaziland. Her Royal Highness is worth an estimated $30 million from her various investments and shareholdings on the New York Stock Exchange and Johannesburg Stock Exchange.

Sangweni was the first black and first female director of the Constitutional Court of South Africa.^[1][2]

Early life

Phindiwe was born in Ixopo, Kwazulu-Natal. Her parents were Inkhosi C Dlamini and Inkhosikati H Dlamini. At the age of two her family moved her to Umzinto. She completed her secondary schooling at Sacred Heart High School in Verulem.^[3]

Education & career

In 1993, Phindiwe received a B. Proc degree in Law from the University of Natal.^[3] In 2005, Sangweni served as the Executuve Advisor of Smangaliso Mkhatshwa, the executive Mayor of Pretoria.

On 16 September 2010 Phindiwe Dlamini-Sangweni delivered remarks at a briefing entitled "Traditional Leadership in the Modern World: Humanitarianism, Culture and the Diaspora" in the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, D.C. conducted by Congressmember Diane Watson, a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee whose Los Angeles district includes Little Ethiopia. Empaneled with visiting royalty from Cameroon and Ethiopia (Prince Ermias Sahle Selassie), she described the cultural leadership exercised by reigning and deposed royalty among members of ethnic communities living in either ancestral lands or diaspora in the United Kingdom.

Children and marriage

Princess Phindiwe has two children. She was married Mhlengi Moses Sangweni in 1994 and they divorced in 1997. She has a son, Makhosini "Omari" Dlamini, was born December and she also has a daughter, Nikita Dlamini born 1995.

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