Zanu PF expels war veterans leader

Zanu PF expels war veterans leader

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By Staff Reporter

ZIMBABWE'S ruling Zanu PF party has risked a messy confrontation with veterans of the country's liberation war by expelling Jabulani Sibanda, chairman of the War Veterans Association, from its ranks.

Sibanda was already serving a four year suspension slapped on him last November after he was named to a group of politicians who attended the so-called Tsholotsho indaba where a plot to change the Zanu PF top leadership is said to have been hatched.

Sibanda and his political allies who were at the meeting called by former Information Minister Jonathan Moyo, accepts the meeting took place but denies any plot was hatched to change Zanu PF's power structure.

Sources said Zanu PF national chairman John Nkomo signed a letter expelling Sibanda from the party almost three weeks ago. The letter was only delivered last week, although Zimbabwe's official media has ignored the story "because they don't know how to handle it".

According to official sources, Sibanda's expulsion from Zanu PF could further complicate relations between the war veterans and the party.

Relations between the two organisations which are affiliated to each other are already strained by an apparent bid by President Robert Mugabe's officials to emaciate the organisation whose members led the invasion of white-owned commercial farms and stand accused of waging a violent campaign against Mugabe's opponents.

New Zimbabwe.com's sources who have seen the letter said Sibanda had been expelled for "insubordination and continual criticism of the party leadership, especially President Mugabe."

"This is a major development because Sibanda’s suspension was already causing fissures among war veterans whose organisation is affiliated to Zanu PF," our source said.

"The war veterans have never had a national chairman who is not a member of Zanu PF. The implications of this development are far reaching."

Repeated attempts to get comment from either Nkomo or Sibanda were unsuccessful last night.
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