Politics
He was first elected to the Central Committee of SWAPO at the party's August 2002 congress, receiving 316 votes and placing 22nd out of the 57 members elected. He has served as a member of the National Assembly of Namibia and as Deputy Minister of Justice since March 2005. He received the second highest number of votes in the election for members of the Central Committee at SWAPO's November 2007 congress.
Nujoma served as Deputy Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Justice between 1992 and 1996 and as Deputy Minister of Justice between 2004 and 2010. He became Minister of Foreign Affairs in 2010. In the wake of the December 2012 SWAPO congress and the subsequent Cabinet reshuffle, Nujoma became Minister of Justice, succeeding Pendukeni Iivula-Ithana.
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