Gladys Nyirongo

Gladys Nyirongo is a Zambian politician. She was the Bwacha constituency member of parliament from 2001 to 2011. She was appointed as the Minister of Sports in 2002 and later as the Minister of Lands in 2006.

Nyirongo was a member of the Heritage Party and won the Bwacha MP seat in the 2001 election. She voted in favour of the Speaker for the ruling Levy Mwanawasa from the Movement for Multi-Party Democracy (MMD) and consequentially was expelled from the Heritage Party in 2002. She decided to stand in the resulting Bwacha constituency by-election as the MMD candidate and retained her parliamentary seat. She was then appointed as the Sports Minister.

She retained her Bwacha MP seat at the 2006 election as the MMD candidate and was then appointed as the Minister of Lands until president Levy Mwanawasa sacked her in March 2007 under accusations that she handed out land plots to her family. A magistrate court sentenced her to four years imprisonment in 2009, which was reduced in 2010 to two years following her appeal in the High Court. She joined the ruling Patriotic Front in June 2016.