Inonge Wina
{{short description|Zambian politician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| image = Inonge Wina (cropped).jpg
| name = Inonge Mutukwa Wina
| order = 13th
| office = Vice President of Zambia
| term_start = 26 January 2015
| president = Edgar Lungu
| preceded = Guy Scott (2014)
| succeeded = Mutale Nalumango
| term_end = 24 August 2021
| office1 = Minister of Gender and Child Development
| president1 = Michael Sata
Guy Scott {{small|(Acting)}}
| term_start1 = 8 March 2012
| term_end1 = 25 January 2015
| predecessor1 = Office created
| successor1 = Nkandu Luo
| office2 = Minister of Chiefs and Traditional Affairs
| president2 = Michael Sata
| term_start2 = 29 September 2011
| term_end2 = 8 March 2012
| predecessor2 = Office created
| successor2 = Emerine Kabanshi
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1941|04|02|df=y}}
| birth_place = Senanga, Northern Rhodesia
| party = Patriotic Front
| spouse = Arthur Wina ({{abbr|d.|died}} 1995)
| children = 3
| alma_mater = Santa Monica College {{small|(Dip.)}}
University of Zambia {{small|(BA)}}
| profession = Social worker, politician
| blank1 = Awards
| caption = Wina in 2012
}}
Inonge Mutukwa Wina (born 2 April 1941) is a Zambian politician who served as the 13th Vice President from 2015 to 2021. She was the first woman to hold the position, which made her the highest ranking woman in the history of the Zambian government.{{Cite web |title=Inonge Mutukwa Wina {{!}} National Assembly of Zambia |url=https://www.parliament.gov.zm/node/427 |access-date=2022-04-03 |website=www.parliament.gov.zm}}
Education
Wina attended primary school in Senanga, at the Barotse National School (now Kambule Secondary School) in Mongu. She eventually completed her high school education at Santa Monica High School in Los Angeles, California. She obtained a diploma in social work at Santa Monica College. She also enrolled for a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Zambia when it was first opened.
Community service
Wina's involvement in community work dates back to the early 1970s when she volunteered free service to women's movements. She has served on various boards of non-governmental organisations. She was also president of the Young Women's Christian Association, where she was instrumental in promoting women's human rights agenda, resulting in the Zambian government's establishment of the Victim Support Unit under the Zambia Police Service. In 1996, she was elected National Chairperson of the NGO Coordinating Council of Zambia (NGOCC).{{Cite web |title=Zambia: Mukulagate scandal involving former government officials… |url=https://www.transparency.org/en/press/zambia-mukula-scandal-former-government-accountability-zero-export-quota-cites |access-date=2022-04-03 |website=Transparency.org |date=17 September 2021 |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2021-08-08 |title=Zambia: In a fair election, Lungu can't win. In an unfair one, he can't lose {{!}} African Arguments |url=https://africanarguments.org/2021/08/zambia-in-a-fair-election-lungu-cant-win-in-an-unfair-one-he-cant-lose/ |access-date=2022-04-03 |language=en-GB}}{{Cite web |date=2015-01-26 |title=Inonge Wina becomes Zambia's first female Vice President – "I want women to enjoy the same rights and benefits as men" |url=https://demofinland.org/en/inonge-wina-becomes-zambias-first-female-vice-president-want-women-enjoy-rights-benefits-men/ |access-date=2022-04-03 |website=Demo Finland |language=en-GB}}
In the Red Ribbon Campaign to defend the Zambian Constitution in 2000, Wina led the women's movement. Wina also served on the boards of Refuge Services Zambia, the [https://www.forus-international.org/en/profile-detail/182714-zcsd-zambia-council-for-social-development Zambia Council of Social Services], the University Teaching Hospital, and the University of Zambia Council in the public sector.{{Cite web |title=A World of Change: Inonge Wina Returns to SMC |url=https://www.smc.edu/news/in-focus/2016/vol-ii-issue-3/03-06-world-change.php |access-date=2022-04-03 |website=www.smc.edu |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2015-01-26 |title=Zambia : Inonge Wina's full profile |url=https://www.lusakatimes.com/2015/01/26/inonge-winas-full-profile/ |access-date=2022-04-03 |language=en-GB}}
Political career
In 2001 Wina was elected as Member of Parliament of Nalolo Constituency as a candidate of the United Party for National Development. She was elected chairperson of a number of portfolio committees, including the Committee on Human Rights Gender and Governance, and Women Parliamentary Caucus.{{Cite web |title=Peace in the home essential first step to community peace, says Zambia's vice president |url=https://thecommonwealth.org/news/peace-home-essential-first-step-community-peace-says-zambias-vice-president |access-date=2022-04-03 |website=Commonwealth |language=en}}
Wina re-contested her Nalolo seat as a United Liberal Party candidate in the 2006 presidential and general elections. She lost the election and appealed the results to the High Court; the case was initially decided in her favor, but the Supreme Court eventually overturned it. Wina ran for the Nalolo seat again in the 2011 general elections, this time on the Patriotic Front ticket, and won. Wina was included in President Michael Sata's initial 18-member cabinet as Minister of Chiefs and Traditional Affairs. On March 8, 2012, Sata, during the commemoration of International Women's Day, upgraded the gender cabinet division into a full ministry and subsequently appointed Wina as Minister of Gender.
On 26 January 2015, newly elected President Edgar Lungu appointed Wina as Vice President of Zambia.{{Cite web |last=Editor |first=Mwebantu |date=2021-05-19 |title=NGOCC Congratulates Nkandu Luo on her appointment as a running mate to President Lungu |url=https://www.mwebantu.com/ngocc-congratulates-nkandu-luo-on-her-appointment-as-a-running-mate-to-president-lungu/ |access-date=2022-04-03 |website=Mwebantu |language=en-US}} She ran on Lungu's ticket in the 2016 election, becoming the first woman elected as Vice President and resigned from the position ahead of the 2021 general election, announcing her intention to retire.{{Cite web |date=17 May 2021 |title=Zambian president appoints Nkandu Luo as running mate for Aug. 12 polls |url=http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2021-05/17/c_139951811.htm |access-date=30 June 2021 |publisher=Xinhua Net}}
Personal life
She was married to Arthur Wina, an independence fighter, former minister and academic who died on 3 September 1995.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oVrVK2ElINMC&pg=PA706|title=Southern African Political History: A Chronology of Key Political Events from Independence to Mid-1997|editor=Jacqueline Audrey Kalley, Elna Schoeman and Lydia Eve Andor|publisher=Greenwood Press|year=1999|pages=706–|isbn=0-313-30247-2|lccn=98-44996}} They had three children, two of whom are deceased. Arthur Wina was educated at Munali Secondary School which, in colonial times, was Zambia's principal secondary school for native Zambians. A number of the members of Zambia's first post-Independence cabinet, (including Arthur Wina's brother Sikota), were also educated at Munali.{{cite news|url=https://www.lusakatimes.com/2013/07/28/sikota-wina-recounts-his-early-days-as-a-politician/|title=Sikota Wina recounts his early days as a Politician|work=Lusaka Times|date=July 28, 2013|access-date=April 5, 2018}}
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Category:21st-century Zambian women politicians
Category:Gender ministers of Zambia
Category:Members of the National Assembly of Zambia
Category:Patriotic Front (Zambia) politicians
Category:People from Senanga District
Category:Santa Monica College alumni
Category:United Party for National Development politicians
Category:University of Zambia alumni
Category:Vice-presidents of Zambia