Jabulile Mashwama (born 1971) is an Eswatini politician. She served as a minister before leading the Eswatini Water Services Corporation.
Mashwama was born in 1971. She went to school at Waterford Kamhlaba between 1984 and 1988 before studying science at university.[citation needed]
Mashwama became the Minister of Natural Resources and Energy in eSwatini.[1]
She worked at Coca Cola Swaziland.[2] In 2011, Wikileaks released an account of a meeting between her and the US Ambassador, Earl Irving. Irving was said to be impressed with her even though she seemed complacent about corruption.[3] In 2014, she submitted her Master of Business Administration at the business school of the University of Pretoria.[4]
In December 2018 she became the Managing Director of the Eswatini Water Services Corporation.[2] Concerns were raised that the people who proposed and agreed to her appointment had themselves been appointed to the board by Mashwama when she was the responsible minister.[5]
Mashwama joined the board of the International Water Association in August 2024. The news was announced in eZulwini where the World Bank Country Director congratulated her.[1]
Private life
Her partner is Dr Petros Mashwama, a university IT lecturer,[6] and their daughter is Inkhosikati Siphelele Mashwama. She married King Mswati.[7] She was thirty years younger than the king and his fourteenth wife.[6]
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