Critics are also asking often rhetorically why Ramaphosa has failed to act against Angie Motshekga or Gwede Mantashe...

More combative officials and open critics of Trump such as ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula and Mining Minister Gwede Mantashe were kept out of the delegation to prevent a confrontation we understand...

The team includes Mokonyana; Second Deputy Secretary Marapone Ramokgopa; ANC Chair Gwede Mantashe; ANC NEC member Nkenke Kekana; Foreign Minister Ronald Lamola; and Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana...

At the African Mining Indaba in early February Mines Minister Gwede Mantashe accused China of exacerbating economic hardship by flooding the market with chrome and crashing prices leaving South African miners struggling to survive...

The six-member national executive committee members including ANC National Chair Gwede Mantashe ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula and ANC Treasurer-General Gwen Ramokgopa spent a week in Cape Town visiting poorer areas such as Khayelitsha and Delft but avoided the Cape Flats areas of Mitchells Plain and Manenberg which are plagued by escalating gang violence and unemployment...

Ramaphosa finally prised the energy portfolio away from Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe and transferred it to frustrated Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa...

They are the ambitious and vocal Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula who backs up the president and whose job it is to promote unity among the factions and ANC chair and Mining and Petroleum Minister Gwede Mantashe who reached out to the populist MK and EFF parties in a failed bid go bring them into the GNU fold...

Ramaphosa will have to struggle to keep a grip on the party machinery and will need to hug Deputy President Paul Mashatile and Mines and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe who is also Chairman of the ANC extremely closely...

And Mbalula and Deputy President Paul Mashatile will be lining up to replace him along with party Chairman Gwede Mantashe who is seen as more sceptical about the coalition...

ANC chairman Gwede Mantashe said in a media interview that while the break-away trend concerned him it also demonstrated the ability of the ANC to generate leaders who believe they can attract substantial support...