Victoria Fikile Chitepo (27 March 1928 – 8 April 2016) was a South African - Zimbabwean politician, activist and educator.
Between 1946 and 1953 she taught in Natal, but moved to what was at the time the British colony of Southern Rhodesia in 1955 after she married her Zimbabwean husband, who was working as a social worker in the capital Salisbury (now Harare).
[1] In 1960, Chitepo became involved with the National Democratic Party, a nationalist movement that campaigned for political rights for Rhodesia's disenfranchised black majority.
Although she lost the election, she remained a senior member of ZANU-PF's ruling body, the politburo, and was targeted by United States sanctions against persons "undermining the democratic processes in Zimbabwe".
She was also sanctioned by Portugal, Spain, France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and the Republic of Ireland.