Gwede Samson Mantashe

ANC General Secretary Gwede Mantashe’s annual confidential report on the state of the party which is intended for the National Executive Committee and which he has not yet delivered describes the ANC as in a ‘shambles’ riven by faction-fighting in groups for or against Zuma’s bid for re-election and by groups seeking access to state resources for personal gain...

Now Julius Malema and the ANCYL are campaigning to replace Zuma as ANC President and Gwede Mantashe as General Secretary...

They have called on their leaders – Nzimande Cronin Gwede Mantashe (SACP National Chairman and ANC General Secretary) and Rob Davies (Trade and Industry Minister) – to be more critical of Zuma and his government...

Cosatu publicly announced his nomination before the ANC had made its choice and ANC General Secretary Gwede Mantashe angrily admitted that Cosatu had bounced the leadership into accepting him...

Gwede Mantashe who is both SACP Chairman and General Secretary of the ANC also supports Zuma and has claimed critics of the Guptas are racially prejudiced...

• Gwede Mantashe: The ANC General Secretary and SACP National Chairman has joined Zuma's inner circle mostly from self-preservation as he is under threat from both right and left in the party all of whom want him to go...

Last year Zwelinzima Vavi General Secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions infuriated the Secretary General of the governing African National Congress Gwede Mantashe by accusing a ‘predatory elite’ within the party of feeding off the state like ‘hyenas’...

Secretary General Gwede Mantashe said Cosatu was moving into opposition with its ‘dangerous populist approach’...

ANCYL opposes the incumbent Gwede Mantashe who is also National Chairman of the South African Communist Party (SACP)...

Two former NUM leaders (and now top ANC officials) Gwede Mantashe and Kgalema Motlanthe face growing attacks from the conservative nationalist wing of the party led by youth leaguers Fikile Mbalula and Julius Malema...