Editing Umbutfo Eswatini Defence Force (section)

==Commanders==
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! rowspan=2| {{Abbr|No.|Number}}
! rowspan=2| Photo
! rowspan=2| Name<br />{{small|(birth–death)}}
! colspan=3| Term of office
! rowspan=2| {{Abbr|Ref.|Refences}}
|-
! Took office
! Left office
! Time in office
|-
| 1
| [[File:noimage.png|60px]]
| '''Prince [[Bhekimpi Dlamini]]'''<br />{{small|(1924–1999)}}
| 15 March 1973
| 10 October 1973
| {{ayd|1973|03|15|1977|10|10}}
| <ref>{{cite book |last1=Tshabalala |first1=Jeffrey |last2=Nhlengethwa |first2=Cyprian |last3=Rupiya |first3=Martin |editor1-last=Rupiya |editor1-first=Martin |title=Evolutions & Revolutions: A Contemporary History of Militaries in Southern Africa |date=2005 |publisher=Institute for Security Studies |isbn=978-1919913827 |url=https://issafrica.s3.amazonaws.com/site/uploads/EVOLUTCHAP10.PDF |access-date=12 October 2021 |chapter=Caught between tradition and regional warfare: The Umbutfo Swaziland Defence Force since 1968}}</ref>
|-
| 2
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| [[Major general]]<br />'''Prince [[Maphevu Dlamini]]'''<br />{{small|(1922–1979)}}
| 10 October 1973
| 25 October 1979 †
| {{ayd|1977|10|10|1979|10|25}}
| {{sfn|Tshabalala|Nhlengethwa|Rupiya|2005|pp=284, 287}}
|-
| 3
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| [[Colonel]]<br />'''[[Jameson Ndzimandze]]'''
| 12 February 1981
| 8 June 1984<br />{{small|''annulled''}}
| {{ayd|1981|02|12|1984|06|08}}
| <ref>{{cite magazine |title=Appointment of Chief of Staff (Army) to the Umbutfo Swaziland Defence Force |magazine=Supplement to the swaziland government gazette |date=22 April 1983 |volume=XXI |number=218 |page=S1 |url=https://gazettes.africa/archive/sz/1983/sz-government-gazette-supplement-dated-1983-04-22-no-218.pdf |access-date=12 October 2021 |location=Mbabane}}</ref><ref name="gazette">{{cite magazine |title=Part C: Legal Notices |magazine=Supplement to the swaziland government gazette |date=14 September 1984 |volume=XXII |number=312 |page=S3-S4 |url=https://gazettes.africa/archive/sz/1983/sz-government-gazette-supplement-dated-1983-04-22-no-218.pdf |access-date=12 October 2021 |location=Mbabane}}</ref>
|-
| 4
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| [[Brigadier]]<br />'''[[Roy Gedion Fonono Dube]]'''<br />{{small|(?–2017)}}
| 8 June 1984
| August 2000
| {{age in years and months|1984|06|08|2000|08|1}}
| <ref name="gazette" />
|-
| 5
| [[File:MEDFLAG 2009 - Mass Casualty Scenario - United States Army Africa - 090806-F-8133W329.jpg|60px]]
| [[Lieutenant general]]<br />'''[[Stanley Dlamini]]'''<br />{{small|(born 1953)}}
| August 2000
| 29 June 2019
| {{age in years and months|2000|08|1|2019|06|29}}
| <ref>{{cite web |title=Former UEDF General Sobantu S. Dlamini |url=http://uedf.mil.sz/site/index.php/uedf/former-uedf-commanders |website=uedf.mil.sz |publisher=Umbutfo Eswatini Defense Force |access-date=12 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210209084025/http://uedf.mil.sz/site/index.php/uedf/former-uedf-commanders |archive-date=9 February 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gov.sz/home.asp?pid=59 |access-date=2010-08-15 |title=Welcome to the home page of the Government of Swaziland |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100523231429/http://www.gov.sz/home.asp?pid=59 |archive-date=May 23, 2010 }}</ref>
|-
| 6
| [[File:Jeffrey Sipho Tshabalala (4605161645) (cropped).jpg|60px]]
| Lieutenant general<br />'''[[Jeffrey Sipho Tshabalala]]'''<br />{{small|(born 1959)}}
| 29 June 2019
| 26 August 2021<br />{{small|''resigned''}}
| {{ayd|2019|06|29|2021|08|26}}
| <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://new.observer.org.sz/details.php?id=9491|title=King Appoints New Army Commander |last=Nhlabatsi|first=Sifiso|date=29 July 2019|website=new.observer.org.sz|access-date=2019-09-26}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Mkhaliphi |first1=Mthobisi |title=Some political parties welcome resignation of Eswatini’s defence force commander |url=https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/some-political-parties-welcome-resignation-of-eswatinis-defence-force-commander/ |website=SABC News |access-date=8 December 2024 |date=26 August 2021}}</ref>
|- 
| style="background:#e6e6aa;"| –
| rowspan=2| [[File:no image.png|60px]]
| rowspan=2| General<br />'''[[Moses Hulumende Mashikilisana Fakudze]]'''<br />{{small|(born {{circa|1963}})}}
| style="background:#e6e6aa;"| 26 August 2021
| style="background:#e6e6aa;"| 16 May 2022
| style="background:#e6e6aa;"| {{ayd|2021|08|26|2022|05|16}}
| style="background:#e6e6aa;"| <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://new.observer.org.sz/details.php?id=16691|title=King Appoints Acting Army Commander |last=Shabangu|first=Simon|date=26 August 2021|website=new.observer.org.sz|access-date=8 December 2024}}</ref>
|-
| 7
| 16 May 2022
| ''Incumbent''
| {{ayd|2022|05|16}}
| <ref>{{cite news |last1=Zwane |first1=Sibusiso |title=King promotes Mashikilisana |url=https://www.pressreader.com/eswatini/times-of-eswatini/20220517/page/9/textview |access-date=8 December 2024 |work=Times of Eswatini |date=17 May 2022 |page=9}}</ref>
|}