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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“They who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts. Their measures are half measures and makeshifts merely. They put off the day of settlement, and meanwhile the debt accumulates.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The word “revolution” itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics: the “revolution” of a wheel which returns in the end to the same place; the “revolving door” of a politics which has “liberated” women only to use them, and only within the limits of male tolerance.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
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—G.M. (George Macaulay)