[3][4] Dzimbiri was born Patricia Fukulani in the village of Chimpikizo, Traditional Authority Nsamala, Balaka District, Malawi, on 25 September 1964.
The opposition, however, boycotted the event, and many mailed back their invitations in what Hetherwick Ntaba, secretary of the Malawi Congress Party and Alliance for Democracy called "the plunder of public money".
[2] Dzimbiri lost her 2019 re-election bid in Balaka West to Bertha Ndebele of the Democratic Progressive Party.
[3][4] In July 2018, Dzimbiri became director of women for the newly established United Transformation Movement party (UTM).
[11] She also worked as the personal advisor on women's affairs to Vice President Saulos Chilima from 2020 until her death in June 2024.
[13] She was buried on 14 June in Chimpikizo following a memorial ceremony that was attended by former presidents Bakili Muluzi and Joyce Banda.