Chief of Defense (Zimbabwe)

Commander of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces
	Incumbent; Philip Valerio Sibanda; since 18 December 2017
	Ministry of Defence
Reports to	Minister of Defence
Appointer	President of Zimbabwe

The Commander of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces is Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces and the national defence organisations.

List of chiefs

No.	Head	Took office	Left office	Time in office	Ref
?	'	1965	1977	11–12 years	–
?	Walls, PeterLieutenant general Peter Walls GLM, DCD, MBE (1927–2010)	1977	1980	2–3 years	[1][2]
?	Maclean, AndrewGeneral Andrew Lockhart Charles Maclean	1980	1981	0–1 years	–

Commander of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces

No.	Commander	Took office	Left office	Time in office	Ref
1	Mujuru, SolomonGeneral Solomon Mujuru (1945–2011)	1981	1992	10–11 years	[3]
2	Zvinavashe, VitalisGeneral Vitalis Zvinavashe (1943–2009)	July 1994	31 December 2003	9 years, 5 months	[4]
3	Chiwenga, ConstantinoGeneral Constantino Chiwenga (born 1956)	1 January 2004	19 December 2017	13 years, 352 days	[5]
4	Sibanda, Philip ValerioGeneral Philip Valerio Sibanda	19 December 2017	Incumbent	3 years, 52 days	[6]

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