Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini is the Prime Minister of Swaziland. He was Prime Minister from 1996 to 2003 and has held the position again from October 2008. He has now been appointed for the third time in the ninth parliament Dlamini was Minister of Finance from 1984 to 1993. He was also an executive director of the International Monetary Fund. From 1996 to 2003, he was Prime Minister, and in 2003 he became a member of King Mswati III's advisory council. Dlamini was a candidate, backed by the Swazi government, for the position of Chairperson of the African Union Commission in early 2008. The government withdrew his candidacy out of solidarity with the Southern African Development Community so that SADC could present a single candidate. Following the September 2008 parliamentary election, Dlamini was reappointed as Prime Minister by Mswati III on 16 October 2008. 

May 15th, 1942 in   /  Died:   Sep 28th, 2018 - aged 78