JOHANNESBURG — Two officials of South Africa’s ruling party who were linked to a bogus sign-language interpreter at Nelson Mandela’s memorial have resigned from the African National Congress, South African media reported Tuesday.
Bantubahle Xozwa, alleged owner of a company that had hired the bogus interpreter, Thamsanqa Jantjie, and former head of the ANC’s religious and traditional affairs desk, resigned, The New Age newspaper reported. His wife, Cikizwa, who had been a personal assistant to a senior party spokesman, also resigned.
The South African Press Association quoted Keith Khoza, another party spokesman, as saying the ANC employees had resigned.
“No reasons were given,” SAPA quoted Khoza as saying. “They just submitted their resignation letter. It happened in December after the incident.”