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EARLY LIFE Sibanda was born in Filabusi , Matabeleland , the only child of a miner who worked in South Africa . He is from the Ndebele tribe. He worked on the railways and was a Trade Union ist before going into politics as Welfare Secretary of ZAPU (being jailed by the Rhodesia n government from 1976 to 1979 ). In 1984 Sibanda was elected President of five amalgamated railway trades unions. He studied and obtained a Diploma in Industrial Labour Relations, and was the first Vice-President of the Zimbabwe Congress Of Trade Unions in 1988 before serving as President from 1989 . He was a leading member of the initiative for the ZCTU to establish a political party in 2000 , being unanimously elected as Vice-President at the inaugural congress. MDC ACTIVITY In 2005 Sibanda was the leader of a faction within the MDC which advocated that the party should participate in elections to the Senate Of Zimbabwe , which it had opposed. When the MDC National Council voted to support participation, MDC Leader Morgan Tsvangirai suspended Sibanda and his supporters such as Welshman Ncube pending a Congress in February 2006 . Sibanda and his allies claimed to have suspended Tsvangirai from his post as Party President. On February 25 , a congress of Sibanda's faction elected Arthur Mutambara as its President. REFERENCE
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