The two are Minerals and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe and ANC Deputy Secretary-General Nomvula Mokonyane...

Ramaphosa has faced formidable opposition within the ANC from the coal lobby including from Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe who is also former General Secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM)...

ANC leaders including its current chairman and Mines and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe have hosted Hamas leaders for years...

Comments from Gordhan's main rival Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy Gwede Mantashe – that these resignations represent 'mice running from methane' – repeat the view of Gordhan's critics that he is largely responsible for the leadership chaos at the two most important SOEs (AC Vol 64 No 7 Now it's Ramaphosa central)...

While Godongwana is the government's chief protagonist of budget cuts he finds himself on the opposite side of the fiscal fence from his former trade union colleague the powerful Mineral and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe...

In February at the annual Mining Indaba conference Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe told Africa Confidential that any attempt to expedite the phasing out of coal would decimate communities in Mpumalanga where most of the mines are...

Ramaphosa indicated he was ready to quit but senior party officials including controversial ANC chair Gwede Mantashe also targeted by Zondo for further investigation persuaded the president to stay on to prevent heavier losses for the party at next year's election...

We hear he now faces push-back from figures such as Pravin Gordhan and the powerful Gwede Mantashe who are protecting their departments (AC Vol 64 No 5 Energy plan riles ANC factions and vested interests)...

Yet Ramaphosa's creation of the electricity minister role has sidelined Minerals and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe a political ally who persuaded the president not to resign last year but has repeatedly delayed attempts to accelerate renewable power projects under the Just Energy Transition (JET – AC Vol 63 No 16 Some light at last)...