Stone Sizani

Stone Sizani at a press conference, 2014

Phumelele "Stone" Sizani (born March 2, 1954 in Alexandria, Port Elizabeth ) is a South African politician and diplomat.

From April 22, 2009 to March 2, 2016 he was a member of the South African Parliament and acted as Whip of the African National Congress . On October 11, 2016, he was accredited as ambassador in Berlin to Federal President Joachim Gauck .

Career

He was a political prisoner on Robben Island from 1978 to 1980 . From 1981 to 1986 he was a laboratory assistant at Allied Colloids . Sizani was Director for the Eastern Cape Region of the Kagiso Trust from 1989 to 1993 . In 1994 he received a Masters in Development Policy from the University of East Anglia with a Chevening Fellowship (British Foreign and Commonwealth Office). For the International Discount Telecommunications Corporation , based in Newark (New Jersey) , he was the general agent for the provinces of Eastern Cape, Western Cape , North Cape and Gauteng from 1994 to 1998 . From 1998 to 1999 he was political advisor to Makhenkesi Arnold Stofile , Prime Minister of the Eastern Cape Province. From 1998 to 1999 he was a member of the executive committee of the Ministry of Education of the Eastern Cape Province. He is married and has four kids.

predecessor	Office	successor
Makhenkesi Arnold Stofile	List of South African ambassadors in Germany since October 11, 2016

Individual evidence

1. ↑ [1]
2. ↑ Doron Shultziner, Struggling for Recognition: The Psychological Impetus for Democratic Progress , p 185
3. ↑ kagiso , [2]
4. ↑ Directory of Chevening Alumni  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ^ South African Embassy in the Federal Republic of Germany: HE Ambassador Phumelele Stone Sizani . at www.suedafrika.org (English, German), self-presentation on the website of the South African Embassy in Berlin