Stone Sizani | |
Term Start1: | 22 April 2009 |
Term End1: | 2 March 2016 |
Office: | Chief Whip of the Majority Party |
Term Start: | 2013 |
Term End: | 2 March 2016 |
President: | Jacob Zuma |
Predecessor: | Mathole Motshekga |
Successor: | Jackson Mthembu |
Birth Date: | 1954 3, df=yes |
Nationality: | South African |
Party: | African National Congress |
Alma Mater: | University of East Anglia |
Phumelele Stone Sizani (born 2 March 1954) is a South African politician who was, until his resignation on 2 March 2016, a Member of the National Assembly of South Africa and the African National Congress Chief Whip.[1] It has been reported that upon leaving Parliament his next post will be South African Ambassador to Germany.[2]
At the age of 18 he was arrested and sent to Robben Island as a political prisoner, where he remained incarcerated from 1978 to 1980.[3] He graduated with an MA in Development Studies from the University of East Anglia in 1995, where he was a Chevening Scholar.[4]