Stone sizani resignation notice

The African National Congress chief whip in Parliament, Stone Sizani, who has been one of the loudest supporters of President Jacob Zuma in the house, has resigned from his seat and will be posted to Germany as South African ambassador, according to news reports on Wednesday.

The ANC said in a statement that Sizani would resign his seat with immediate effect “because of the urgency with which he is required in the new deployment”, but it did not specify what that deployment was.

Sizani apparently told reports outside Parliament on Wednesday that he would be the new ambassador in Germany.

On Tuesday, Sizani, who has been ANC chief whip since 2013, rose numerous times during the no-confidence debate in Jacob Zuma to demand that the Democratic Alliance leader Mmusi Maimane refer to Zuma as “Honourable” or “His Excellency”.

Maimane did not concede, and Sizani kept interrupting him.

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