Samuel Dickenson Nxumalo | |
Order: | 3rd |
Office: | Chief Minister of Gazankulu |
Term Start: | 1 April 1993 |
Term End: | 26 April 1994 |
Predecessor: | Edward Mhinga |
Successor: | None |
Death Date: | 7 March 2015 |
Death Place: | Magona, Limpopo, South Africa[1] |
Samuel Dickenson Nxumalo (1926 – 7 March 2015) was the third and last Chief Minister of Gazankulu,[2] a former bantustan in apartheid-era South Africa. He served as Chief Minister from 1 April 1993 to 26 April 1994, when the bantustan was re-integrated into Transvaal.
Nxumalo was born at Gijana Village in 1926. He was born into a junior house of the Ndwandwe clan, direct descendants of warrior king NGHUNGHUNYANI (Gungunhana), the last lion of Gaza.