Honorific Prefix: | Honorable |
Damas Daniel Ndumbaro | |
Honorific Suffix: | MP |
Office: | Minister of Culture, Arts and Sports |
Term Start: | 1 September 2023 |
Predecessor: | Pindi Chana |
Term Start1: | 1 April 2022 |
Term End1: | 31 August 2023 |
Predecessor1: | George Simbachawene |
Successor1: | Pindi Chana |
Office2: | Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism |
Term Start2: | 5 December 2020 |
Term End2: | 1 April 2022 |
Predecessor2: | Hamisi Kigwangalla |
Successor2: | Pindi Chana |
Office3: | Member of Parliament |
Term Start3: | November 2017 |
Predecessor3: | Leonidas Gama |
Constituency3: | Songea Urban Nominated |
Birth Date: | 14 June 1971 |
Birth Place: | Songea, Tanzania |
Alma Mater: | UDSM, Open University of Tanzania |
Party: | Chama Cha Mapinduzi |
Damas Daniel Ndumbaro (born 14 June 1971) is a Tanzanian politician, lawyer and cabinet Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs.
He was a Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism and a politician who presently serves as a Chama Cha Mapinduzi's Member of Parliament for Songea Urban constituency for the second term since 2015. Also was the acting Chief Executive Officer of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority since March 2013.[1] [2] He was an Advocate and a Lecturer of law at the Open University of Tanzania before joining politics and won a majority vote election in Songea Urban constituency under the ruling party CCM.
In 2018, he was appointed by President John Magufuli, as the deputy minister of Foreign Affairs and East African Cooperation.[3] In December 2020 after the 2020 general election, in Magufuli's 2nd cabinet he was appointed the Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism.[4] He continued in this docket following the death of Magufuli, however, in April 2022 he was made the new Minister of Constitutional Affairs and Justice in Samia Suluhu's cabinet.[5] On 1 September 2023, following Samia Suluhu's cabinet reshfulle, he assumed the new post as Minister of Culture, Arts and Sports.[6]