SAD NEWS: Minister Of Gender Hon Victoria Kalima Passes On

Hon Kalima died this evening at Maina Soko Military hospital where she had been admitted.

Hon Kalima born in October 1972 first came into parliament in 2011 on the Movement for Multi-party Democracy ticket as Kasenegwa member of parliament.

In 2016 Kalima staunchly advocated for an alliance between PF and MMD and later defected to the Patriotic Front and stood on the PF ticket and won.

Hon. Kalima was subsequently appointed as Gender Minister by his Excellency President Edgar Chagwa Lungu a position she has held till her demise.

Hon Kalima has steered change that many will remember her for;

In 2012 she defended the rights of journalists who got detained and who’s cameras were confiscated. In 2017 she became an activist against gender inequality and child marriages. The same year she also proposed a revised version of Marriage Bill which will ban any marriages between a man and a woman until both are at least 21 years of age.

Details for her funeral and burial are yet to be communicated.