What is Mbandzeni?
{{Infobox royalty |issue=[[Ngwane V]] |death_place=[[Mbekelweni]] |death_date=1889<br/> (aged 33–34) |birth_place= |birth_date=1855 |mother=[[Nandzi Nkambule]] |father=[[Mswati II]] |royal house=[[House of Dlamini]] |spouse=[[Labotsibeni Mdluli]] |name=Dlamini IV |successor=[[Ngwane V]] |regent=Queen [[Tsandzile Ndwandwe]] |predecessor=[[Ludvonga|Ludvonga II]] |coronation=1875 |reign=1875–1889 |succession=[[King of Swaziland]] |image= |title= |burial_place=[[Mbilaneni]] }} '''Mbandzeni''' (also known as '''Dlamini IV''', '''Umbandine''', '''Umbandeen'''; 1855–1889) was the [[King of Swaziland]] from 1875 until 1889. He was the son of Mswati II and Nandzi Nkambule. His mother, the wife of King Mswati, died when he was very young. Mbandzeni became king because 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. That made 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. Those reduced the overall borders of Swaziland and later made Swaziland a protectorate of the [[South African Republic]]. During a period of concessions preceded by [[famine]] around 1877 some of the tindvunas (governors) from within Swaziland like Mshiza Maseko and Ntengu kaGama Mbokane were given permission by King Mbandzeni to relocate to farms towards the Komati River. Mshiza Maseko later settled in a place called eLuvalweni, where he was later buried. 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 people|Zulu]] incursion into the Transvaal during the same year. As a result, he guaranteed his country's i