Gwede Samson Mantashe

He elaborated on Mines and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe's relaxation of restrictions on private power companies competing with the ailing state utility Eskom...

Ramaphosa is also to clarify a plan announced by Mines Minister Gwede Mantashe last week to allow mining and other big companies to generate their own electricity and cut pressure on Eskom...

Mining Minister Gwede Mantashe made the key announcement at the opening of the Mining Indaba on 3 February...

Such changes as have occurred such as the Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe's surprise announcement that the government will now open a fourth bid window for renewable energy projects through Independent Power Producers only came about because of unprecedentedly long power-cuts in the run-up to Christmas...

Gwede Mantashe is widely seen as having been appointed Energy Minister in May to manage the political tensions around reform of Eskom and the wider power sector...

Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe who is ANC chair and a former chair of the SACP has made a remarkable turnaround by embracing the green energy plan in the past few months despite his earlier claims that coal was a cheaper source of energy...

Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe like Ramaphosa a former leader of the powerful National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) has told the unions that they have no option but to support Eskom reforms in the national interest...

Women's League President Bathabile Dlamini and former Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba were disqualified in the first category; the 19 named in the second category included current ANC chair Gwede Mantashe Supra Mahumapelo former Premier of North West province and former ministers Bongani Bongo Faith Muthambi Mosebenzi Zwane and Nomvula Mokonyane...

ANC chairman and Mineral Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe seen as a Ramaphosa supporter is third on the list and Zuma's ex-wife Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma is in fourth place...

Ramaphosa also appointed former ANC Secretary General Gwede Mantashe once president of the National Union of Mineworkers as the Mineral Resources Minister...