Ngwanase Tembe
| Ngwanase Tembe | |
|---|---|
| Inkosi (Chief) of the Tembe | |
| Reign | 1894–1928 |
| Predecessor | King Noziyingile Tembe |
| Successor | Tembe Tribal Authority |
| Died | 1928 Maputaland, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa |
| House | Tembe Tribal Authority |
| Father | King Noziyingile Tembe |
| Mother | Queen Zambili Dlamini (Swazi princess) |
Prince Ngwanase Tembe (died 1928) was a Chief of Tembe and ruler within the historic Tembe Kingdom on the north-eastern coast of present-day KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and southern Mozambique. He governed the Tembe people from 1894 until his death in 1928. Ngwanase was the son of King Noziyingile Tembe and Queen Zambili Dlamini of the Kingdom of Eswatini. He is widely regarded as the founder of the dominant Ngwanase-Tembe branch of the Tembe royal line, a lineage that emerged following a succession dispute with Prince Makhuza Tembe (son of his father's brother Prince Madingi Tembe), who established the parallel Makhuza-Tembe branch of the chieftaincy.
Ngwanase's family belonged to the broader Tembe-Thonga people, a group with a long-established chiefly lineage in the region that today spans northern KwaZulu Natal and southern Mozambique, an area historically known as Maputaland or the defined Maputaland-Lubombo region.