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Philip Valerio Sibanda

Politician · Sanctioned entity

Philip Valerio Sibanda is subject to sanctions. See the individual program listings below. They are also a politically exposed person.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Philip Valerio Sibanda · Phillip Valentine Sibanda				[sources]
Other name	Phillip Valerio SIBANDA				[sources]
Birth date	1956-08-25				[sources]
Place of birth	Southern Rhodesia				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Zimbabwe				[sources]
Country	United Kingdom · Zimbabwe				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Philip · Phillip Valentine				[sources]
Last name	Sibanda				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q7184496				[sources]
Position	Chief of Defense (Zimbabwe) (2017-)				[sources]
Education	Marist Brothers Secondary School Dete, Zimbabwe				[sources]
Last change	2025-10-01	Last processed	2025-10-22	First seen	2022-04-27

Descriptions

Former Commander, Zimbabwe National Army

— Australian Sanctions Consolidated List, 2023-04-20

Zimbabwean general (b. 1954)

— Wikidata non-official source, 2025-02-11

Relationships

Sanctions
Country	Authority	Program	Start date	End date
Canada	Global Affairs Canada		-	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Chief of Defense (Zimbabwe)	2017-12-18	-

Data sources

Canadian Consolidated Autonomous Sanctions List5,042

Sanctions imposed by Canada on specific countries, organizations, or individuals under the Special Economic Measures Act (SEMA) and JVCFOA

Canada · Global Affairs Canada

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons274,451

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Australian Sanctions Consolidated List4,568

The Consolidated List is a list of all persons and entities who are subject to targeted financial sanctions under Australian sanctions law

Australia · DFAT

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories376,205

Category-based imports from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

The record has been enriched with data from the following external databases:

Wikidata350,457

Wikidata is the structured data project of the Wikipedia community, providing fact-based information edited by humans and machines

External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions549,081

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: NK-UySHsZ5pxrMdQNc8zoCQ39 · au-dfat-2480-phillip-valentine-sibanda · ca-sema-zimbabwe-n-a-142 · ca-sema-142-zw-phillip-valentine-sibanda · ca-sema-5c82ed9619338b1320ac554ce50c209e775d8e4d · ch-seco-7018

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