Zwelivelile Mandla Mandela – Chief of the Mvezo Traditional Council, the Amir of the Royal House of Mandela, and the grandson of former President Nelson Mandela
Zwelivelile Mandlesizwe Dalibhunga Mandela is the Chief of the Mvezo Traditional Council, the Amir of the Royal House of Mandela, and the grandson of former President Nelson Mandela. Prior to both his succession to the chieftaincy and his election to Parliament in 2009, he attended Waterford Kamhlaba, a United World College in Swaziland (now Eswatini), until 1995. Thereafter he graduated from Rhodes University with a Bachelor’s degree in Politics in 2007. Mandela is the Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development, and he has also served in the Ad Hoc Committee to initiate and Introduce Legislation amending Section 25 of the Constitution.
