Thandatha Jongilizwe Mabandla

Chief Justice Thandathu Jongilizwe Mabandla known as Chief Justice Mabandla (16 August 1926 – 22 December 2021) was a Xhosa chief from Alice in Eastern Cape.

Education In 1931, he started primary school at Mdlankomo before attending Grantville and St Barrabas, completing his primary studies at the later in 1944. In 1972 Lennox Leslie Wongama Sebe, a member of Mabandla's cabinet, broke with Mabandla and formed his own party, the Ciskei National Independence Party (CNIP). The CNIP became successful in 1973 and Sebe then became the new Chief minister of the Ciskei. In 1978, Mabandla and other members of his party crossed floors to the CNIP and Ciskei became a one-party state.

Personal life and death Mabandla married Pumla Ndamase, daughter of King Victor Poto Ndamase "Aa! Bhekuzulu", West Pondoland and sister to King Tutor Vulindlela Ndamase "Aa! Nyangelizwe", on 6 January 1960.