During this period he successfully defended the right of independent schools to exist and operate without state interference by mounting ten lawsuits against the Minister of Education without a single loss.
He was the Member of House of Assembly for Mount Pleasant (MDC-T) (2008 to 2013).
He was the Chief Political Advisor to Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and assisted in discharging the constitutional mandate of overseeing the formulation of policy by cabinet and supervised its implementation by the entirety of government.
[1][2] On 23 November 2024, Timba, by then the leader of a faction of the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change, was convicted along with 34 others on charges of unlawful assembly after being arrested at Timba's house in Harare in June.
[3] He was sentenced to a suspended two-year prison term on 27 November.