Jointly one of the first women elected to the National Assembly, she was also the country's first female junior minister.
Nakatindi was born in Lealui; her father was Yeta III, the Litunga of Barotseland.
Alongside Margret Mbeba and Ester Banda, she was a member of the first group of women to be elected to the legislature.
[4] She went on to become Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Labor and Social Development in 1966,[1] the first woman to hold a junior ministerial position.
[1] She then became a member of the House of Chiefs and governor of Sesheke District, positions in which she served until her death in 1972.