Critics say the move violates the constitution and militarises the Zimbabwean state.
General Sibanda was co-opted into the ruling party’s highest decision-making body, the politburo, on 28 October during ZANU-PF’s annual conference, in what constitutional experts say breaches the country’s laws as soldiers are supposed to stay out of politics.
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