Mutinta Mazoka was born . Her parents are the late politician
Anderson Mazoka and
Mutinta C. Mazoka, a former member of the
National Assembly of Zambia. Mazoka studied political science at
Syracuse University, then worked for the
National Democratic Institute for International Affairs in Washington, D.C., before attending graduate school at the
American InterContinental University, graduating with an
MBA. She went on to work in finance, with nonprofits, and on entrepreneurial ventures She then became the publisher of
The Mast, an independent newspaper in Zambia that was launched to continue the work of the shuttered
Post. Mazoka was a longtime member of the
United Party for National Development, which was founded by her father,
Anderson Mazoka. In the
2021 Zambian general election, she ran to represent
Monze constituency in the assembly, but she lost during the primary vote (the party chose
Jack Mwiimbu to represent instead). Her husband,
Fred M'membe, is a Zambian journalist who ran the now-closed
Post. In 2021, he ran for president as leader of the
Socialist Party. In November 2022, Mazoka resigned from the UPND. She had been a member of the party's National Management Committee at the time. She was previously arrested in connection with she and M'membe's journalistic work in 2016. == References ==