Marlene Mungunda

The Honourable
Marlene Mungunda
Minister of Gender Equality and Child Welfare
In office
2005–2010
PresidentHifikepunye Pohamba
Prime MinisterNahas Angula
Preceded byNetumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah
Succeeded byDoreen Sioka
Minister of Labour and Social Welfare
In office
2004–2005
PresidentSam Nujoma
Prime MinisterTheo-Ben Gurirab
Preceded byMarco Hausiku
Succeeded byAlpheus ǃNaruseb
Deputy minister of Minister of Gender Equality and Child Welfare
In office
2000–2004
PresidentSam Nujoma
Prime MinisterHage Geingob
Theo-Ben Gurirab
Personal details
Born (1954-09-11) September 11, 1954 (age 70)
Mariental, Hardap Region
NationalityNamibian
OccupationPolitician

Maria Marlene Mungunda (born 11 September 1954 in Mariental, Hardap Region) is a Namibian politician who served in several portfolios as minister. She is a teacher by profession[1] and worked as teacher from 1975 to 1996.[2]

Career

A member of the SWAPO, Mungunda worked in the lower party structures for her home town Mariental and for the Southern region. In 1996 she entered parliament. She was appointed deputy minister of Minister of Gender Equality and Child Welfare in 2000. In 2004 she was promoted to Minister of Labour and Social Welfare, and in 2005 she returned to the gender equality ministry, this time as minister.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Profile Archived 2011-06-11 at the Wayback Machine at Namibia Institute for Democracy
  2. ^ "Mungunda Maria Marline". Parliament of Namibia. Retrieved 15 July 2022.


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