Marlene Mungunda | |
Birth Date: | 11 September 1954 |
Birth Place: | Mariental, Hardap Region |
Nationality: | Namibian |
Office: | Minister of Gender Equality and Child Welfare |
Term Start: | 2005 |
Term End: | 2010 |
Primeminister: | Nahas Angula |
President: | Hifikepunye Pohamba |
Predecessor: | Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah |
Successor: | Doreen Sioka |
Office1: | Minister of Labour and Social Welfare |
Term Start1: | 2004 |
Term End1: | 2005 |
Primeminister1: | Theo-Ben Gurirab |
President1: | Sam Nujoma |
Predecessor1: | Marco Hausiku |
Successor1: | Alpheus ǃNaruseb |
Office2: | Deputy minister of Minister of Gender Equality and Child Welfare |
President2: | Sam Nujoma |
Primeminister2: | Hage Geingob Theo-Ben Gurirab |
Term Start2: | 2000 |
Term End2: | 2004 |
Occupation: | Politician |
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]
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]