Career
Under his leadership the ZNLWVA mobilised War Veterans and other ZANU Public Finance sympathisers in the forced and often violent appropriation of farmland they claimed to have been stolen during colonialisation. He was expelled from ZANU-Public Finance in 2004 for being part of the Tsholotsho Declaration. Robert Mugabe endorsement
Mugabe at one time wanted Jabulani to be Matebeleland ZANU-Public Finance chairman, an influential position, but heavyweights in the region refused to acquiesce to this.
Simba Makoni candidacy
Jabulani Sibanda, in his capacity as the chairman of the war veterans association, indicated that the former guerillas would go back into the bush if Mugabe lost the 2008 presidential election to Simba Makoni.
Expulsion and arrest
Jabulani Sibanda was expelled from ZANU-Public Finance and ousted as leader of the war veterans ZNLWVA at the end of 2014 because of his apparent allegiance to beleaguered Vice President Joice Mujuru. JB as he is affectionately known was openly opposed to it and denounced it as a "bedroom coup"., - See more at:.
