Victoria Kalima Phiri (4 October 1972 – 11 June 2018)[2] was a Zambian politician who was Minister of Gender and member of the National Assembly for Kasenengwa from 2016 and 2011, respectively, till her death.
[4] She studied for an MBA at Cavendish University in Lusaka[4] and also gained diplomas in agricultural business management and international relations.
[6] Her victory in the elections was overturned in the Supreme Court in December 2013 on the basis that she had given out bicycles and chitenge material to voters and claimed that the Patriotic Front would kill old people and stop the distribution of antiretroviral drugs.
[7] Kalima was re-selected as the MMD candidate and contested the 2014 by-election, in which she was returned to the National Assembly with a reduced majority of 7,452.
[11] Despite previously criticising other MMD politicians for doing so,[12] she later defected to the Patriotic Front and was nominated as the party's candidate in Kasenengwa in the elections.