Rejoice Timire

Rejoice Timire, April 7, 1959, to August 10, 2021, was a Zimbabwean disability rights activist and politician who served as a Senator in the Senate of Zimbabwe representing people with disabilities from August 2018 until her death in August 2021. She became a prominent advocate for disabled people, particularly disabled women, after a severe spinal injury in a 1998 accident in Cape Town, and served as executive director of the Disabled Women's Support Organisation. She played an instrumental role in developing Zimbabwe's National Disability Policy, launched in June 2021, and was a member of the ruling ZANU-PF party. She died from COVID-19 in Harare.