 However, over the following 60 years the practical power and influence of the office of "ndlovukati" became greatly overshadowed, in part because the British chose to recognize the powers of the king (whom they called the "Paramount Chief") over those of the senior, in part because of the force of Sobhuza's personality in contrast to the "tindlovukati" who succeeded his own mother after she died in 1938, and in part because of conservative aristocratic Swazi male reactions to colonialism, which created a new and more rigid form of patriarchy now called and argued by some to be mischaracterised as "traditional".The office of "Ndlovukati" suffered a further blow after the death of Sobhuza II, when a holder of the office was implicated in the political machinations of Prince Mfanasibili aimed at usurping the kingship.Thus the political-cultural ideals and historical meanings of the office expressed above do not really characterise the "Ndlovukati" today, whose position has become much weaker than that of the "Ngwenyama".