Inkosi Ya Makhosi M'mbelwa V | |||||||||
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Inkosi Ya Makhosi M'mbelwa V | |||||||||
King of the Ngoni Nation | |||||||||
Reign | 2 June 2013 – present | ||||||||
Coronation | 3 July 2013 | ||||||||
Predecessor | M'mbelwa IV | ||||||||
Born | Edingeni, Mzimba, Malawi | 2 June 1985||||||||
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House | House of M'mbelwa | ||||||||
Father | King M'mbelwa IV | ||||||||
Mother | Dindani Lukhele | ||||||||
Religion | Church of Central Africa Presbyterian |
Inkosi Ya Makhosi M'mbelwa V (born 2 June 1979) is the reigning[1] King of the Ngoni and Tumbuka people in Malawi, Zambia and Tanzania.[2] M'mbelwa V is the fifth surviving son of the great-grandfather King Zwangendaba Jele and Queen Munene of the Nzima clan of present-day Eswatini.[3] M'mbelwa V inherited his father's kingdom when he passed away in February 2013 at Mwaiwathu Private Hospital in Malawi's commercial city, Blantyre, where he was diagnosed with diabetes attack and hypertension.[4][5][6][7] During his death, he was 56 years old.[5][8][9] M'mbelwa V's headquarters is in Edingeni, Mzimba.[8][10] He is married to Inkosikazi M'mbelwa V.[11][12][13] During COVID-19 in 2020, he instructed the government to avoid mass gatherings of people.[14]