Gwede Samson Mantashe

The ANC's fiery Secretary General Gwede Mantashe played a central role in drawing up the national list and coordinating with the party's branches in the nine provinces...

They detest its staunch tactical support for the Zuma presidency the position articulated by SACP Politburo member and ANC Secretary General Gwede Mantashe...

Yet the likelihood of a fightback under the determined and effective Secretary General Gwede Mantashe should not be underestimated...

ANC Secretary General Gwede Mantashe and Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande respectively past and current SACP secretaries general exemplify the influence of the SACP at the highest levels of government and of the ANC...

African National Congress (ANC) Secretary General Gwede Mantashe has also weighed in against Vavi saying that Cosatu's problem was the attempt by some to impose ‘a cult of personality'...

Zuma’s close ally the ANC General Secretary Gwede Mantashe has called the campaign a ‘clean-up’ to stop ‘ill-discipline and factionalism from overrunning the ANC’...

Now however ANC General Secretary Gwede Mantashe is challenging Ramaphosa for control of the governing party’s national leadership...

ANC Secretary General and close Zuma-ally Gwede Mantashe tweeted back ‘That is a wrong public posture it is a wrong observation and if he believes in it he is going to be disappointed’...

Last year when South Africa refused to give a visa to the Dalai Lama ANC General Secretary Gwede Mantashe ANC NEC member Jessie Duarte Deputy Economic Development Minister Enoch Godongwana and all ANC provincial secretaries went to China for political exchanges...

Gauteng and Eastern Cape provinces which are both opposed to Zuma have complained to ANC Secretary General Gwede Mantashe that some of their branches have not been ‘recognised’ by his office which is in charge of branch audits...