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Nhlanhla Victor Euclid Ngidi (born 10 April 1953) is a South African politician and attorney who served as director-general for the province of KwaZulu-Natal and a member of the African National Congress. He has been a member of the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature from 1994-2000 and he headed a Crime Analysis Division at the Directorate of Special Operations in the National Prosecuting Authority.

Nhlanhla Ngidi became a regional executive manager of the South African Social Security Agency in KwaZulu-Natal before joining the Office of the Premier in KwaZulu-Natal as the Director-General of the province in 2015.

Early life and education
Nhlanhla Ngidi was born on 10 April 1953 at uMphumulo Hospital, kwaMaphumulo District in KwaZulu-Natal by the Late Reverend Benjamin Ndoda Bernard Ngidi, a minister of religion of the United Congregational Church of Southern Africa (UCCSA) and mother is the late Thokozile Ethel Ngidi (nee Msomi).

As a child of the reverend, Nhlanhla Ngidi was introduced to a variety of communities including their cultures and practices opening his mind to other ways of life and understanding South Africa in its complete diversity.

Though he is the eldest of his siblings, however he is not the first. He is actually the fourth.

His childhood was largely uneventful except that for a time when his father started his theological studies he had to stay with his grandparents.

He attended many schools because of the nomadic life occasioned on me by his father’s calling.

He first attended Umzumbe Combined School  (1962) then Ekukhuleni Primary School (1963-194) followed by George Goch Primary School. He started high school at Mzimhlophe High Primary School (1966-1967),then matriculated at Amanzimtoti Zulu Training School (Adams College) in 1972 where his political awareness was kindled after he became aware, that blacks we were oppressed and living under the evil system of Apartheid and were consequently institutionally and legislatively denied our fundamental rights.

Political career
He registered at the University of Zululand (oNgoye) for a law degree the following year and that where he was introduced into a politically charged environment as the previous year the campus had been a theater of students’ unrest sparked by the killing of a former student, Mthuli ka Shezi by the Police.

After uNgoye saga he was fortunate to be hired by the late Griffiths Mxenge as a clerk and saw the end of the year in that way. However, the political situation was quite volatile, and students’ protests had become widespread.

The following year, 1980 he registered at the University of Natal (Howard College, now known as the University of KwaZulu-Natal). That year saw an upsurge in the students’ protests in Durban. He found himself involved in them. Concurrent with that was the initiation of the Free Mandela Campaign. Essentially this was the call for the release of all political prisoners.

After the 1994 elections he became a Member of the Provincial Legislature (MPL) as one of the whips of the ANC caucus. In 1999 he returned as an MPL and this time he was appointed as the Portfolio Committee Chairperson of the then Social Welfare Committee (now known as Social Development).

Attorney
In 1999 that he achieved his long-held ambition of being formally admitted in the High Court as an attorney. This completed his legal training. After admission, he joined the legal firm of Siwendu, Ngakane and Associates as a professional assistant.

Personal life
He is married to MaMbambo and they have 2 children