# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sibongile-ndlela-simelane
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:52:58.956Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sibongile-ndlela-simelane"
name: "Sibongile Ndlela-Simelane"
slug: "sibongile-ndlela-simelane"
description: "Sibongile Ndlela-Simelane was Minister for Health for Eswatini from 2013 to 2018 under the government of Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini. 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 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."
tagline: "Politician from Eswatini"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Sibongile_Ndlela-Simelane.jpg/330px-Sibongile_Ndlela-Simelane.jpg"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           35.56
  momentum:             9.999999999999998
  historical:           5.268106666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/sibongile-ndlela-simelane-ba9a101b0/"
    handle:    "sibongile-ndlela-simelane-ba9a101b0"
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibongile_Ndlela-Simelane"
    title: "Sibongile Ndlela-Simelane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibongile_Ndlela-Simelane"
    title: "Sibongile Ndlela-Simelane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibongile_Ndlela-Simelane"
    title: "Sibongile Ndlela-Simelane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sibongile_Ndlela-Simelane"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibongile_Ndlela-Simelane"
    title: "Sibongile Ndlela-Simelane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibongile_Ndlela-Simelane"
    title: "Sibongile Ndlela-Simelane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q112055121"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump