Daniel Shumba

Dr. Daniel Shumba is a former Zimbabwe Army colonel and businessman, was invited back into active politics and rose to Masvingo Provincial Chairman and member of the Central Committee [(the highest organ)] of the ZANU-PF political party. He is currently the Deputy Secretary for Transport and Welfare in the Politburo of the ZANU-PF Party. He is a son of a founding member of ZANU, and had a strong political background.He underwent Zanla's basic military training at Chisamba, Zambia in 1978 before continuing with his academics. Dr Daniel Shumba's accolades extend to having served in the Special Forces (The Parachute Group) of the Zimbabwe National Army between 1983 to 1989. He established himself as a fearless fighter. In 2006, he left the party in a falling out over the unresolved issue of the Tsholotsho agenda. Later in that year, he announced the creation of his own party, the United People's Party. The Tsholotsho issue has since been found to have been a fallacy. He did not run in the 2008 Zimbabwean presidential election, but went on to win an order in the Constitutional Court.

In September 2009, Dr Daniel Shumba resigned from opposition politics and rejoined Zanu-PF. He is a highly respected and well regarded member of the Zanu-PF party, and represent it and won in Masvingo Urban constituency, in the July 2013 National Elections. Dr Daniel Shumba is a member of Zanu-PF"s highest organ, the Central Committee, and was appointed (in December, 2014) Deputy Secretary for Transport and Welfare, in the Zanu-PF's Politburo.

He is a well mannered person known to be open, yet firm and direct in his dealings. He is a highly regarded parliamentarian and seats on its highest committee, the Standing Rules & Orders Committee (SROC), he is also an influential and key member of the Justice & Legal Portfolio committee, and is also the esteemed Chairman of the Mines and Energy Portfolio committee.

Dr Daniel Shumba has represented Zimbabwe at the Africa Institute of Legislative Forum (2013) in Abuja, Nigeria, and also lead the Zimbabwe's monitoring delegations to the 2014 South Africa National Elections, and the 2014 Namibia National Elections. He is also a member of a number of regional and international economic bodies (including the World Economic Forum). Dr Daniel Shumba is the head of delegation to the ACP and the joint ACP-EU Parliamentary Assembly. He chaired the ACP Standing Committee on Political Affairs at the 40th session of the ACP Parliamentary Assembly, and also chaired the Political Affairs Bureau at the 30th session of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly in Brussels on the 4 and 8 December 2015.

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