[1] She is the former Minister of Tourism, Environment and Natural Resources in the Zambian Cabinet.
[3] Catherine Namugala served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2002 until 2003.
Since then, she served as Deputy Minister in the Office of the Vice President, prior to being appointed Minister of Tourism and the Environment in 2008[4] In February 2010, Catherine Namugala was awarded the African Tourism Minister Of The Year Award, beating six contestants from Ghana, Namibia, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe.
Instead she endorsed president Lungu's re-election bid for the Patriotic Front.
She belongs to the Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD), political party.