Sibanda began challenging authority in high school and when he went to College he was elected a member of the Student Representative Council, rising through the ranks until he became president of the National Union of Students in Polytechnic and Technical Colleges (NUSPOTECH).
He continuously challenged the government on the privatisation of education and the lack of basic human rights in the country.
[1] He was the Steering Committee Youth Representative of the Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition, Board Member of the Zimbabwe Election Support Network, youth committee member of the National Constitutional Assembly amongst other political roles in the country.
[2][3] After leaving ZINASU he spent 1 year and 9 months with the Movement for Democratic Change working in the Office of the President carrying out various responsibilities including Co-ordinating the Broad Alliance and engaging regional ambassadors on the issues of Zimbabwe.
Sibanda then left the country in 2004 and returned to active Zimbabwe politics in 2018, when he was appointed the President Spokesperson by MDC President Nelson Chamisa[4] Nkululeko Sibanda is the current Spokesperson for Nelson Chamisa, who is the President of Zimbabwe's Movement for Democratic Change and is thought to have won the July 2018 Presidential elections in the country, before the military stepped in and forced the announcement of Emmerson Mnangagwa as the winner, including the subsequent confirmation by a partisan Supreme Court, sitting as a Constitutional Court.