Halima James Mdee (born 1978) is a Tanzanian politician and one of the most polarizing and fiercely debated figures in the nation's political landscape. For a decade, she was the undisputed \"Iron Lady\" of the opposition, serving as the Member of Parliament for Kawe (2010–2020) and the powerful Chairperson of the CHADEMA Women’s Wing (BAWACHA). She was famous for her razor-sharp legal mind, explosive parliamentary debates, and multiple arrests while fighting the CCM regime. However, her political trajectory violently derailed after the disputed 2020 general elections. Mdee, alongside 18 other female CHADEMA MPs (dubbed the "COVID-19 Group"), was expelled from the party for accepting Special Seats in Parliament against the explicit boycott directives of Chairman Freeman Mbowe. This triggered a brutal, multi-year legal and political war. Mdee fought the expulsion through the High Court and the Court of Appeal, arguing she was denied a fair hearing. Throughout the 2020-2025 parliamentary term, she continued to sit in the house as an independent entity, caught in the devastating crossfire between a state that used her to legitimize the parliament and an opposition that branded her a supreme traitor.