The project would be based at the Eastern Cape port terminal of Coega which is in the home territory of ANC chair and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe who has been accused of malfeasance by Judge Raymond Zondo's state capture commission...

AwkwardPart three of the commission report published on 1 March has put Ramaphosa in an awkward position after it found that Gwede Mantashe energy minister and chair of the ANC benefited from controversial security company Bosasa which paid to upgrade security at three of his properties when he was the ANC secretary-general...

Mashatile has called on the top six leaders of the ANC – except for Ramaphosa and party chairman Gwede Mantashe – to relinquish their positions ahead of December's elective conference to open opportunities for others including women such as former deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka and Zulu contenders such as Water and Sanitation Minister Senzo Mchunu...

ANC chair Gwede Mantashe is likely to emerge as kingmaker whereas one-time hopeful Treasurer-General Paul Mashatile looks set to lose out but both are likely to retain their positions in the ANC's 'top six' officials...

ANC chairman Gwede Mantashe from Eastern Cape is likely to play kingmaker despite being heavily criticised in the second volume of Justice Raymond Zondo's investigation into state capture...

ANC veteran and former Secretary-General Gwede Mantashe who is Mining and Energy Minister party chair and historically a key Ramaphosa ally said that Sisulu was expressing a personal view...

Possible contenders are Treasurer-General Paul Mashatile a former Premier of Gauteng; Zweli Mkhize the former health minister who resigned after it was found his family benefited from a government Covid-19 communications contract; and Gwede Mantashe a Ramaphosa ally at odds with him over the rate of phasing out coal (AC Vol 62 No 22 Leaders clash over climate)...

Green activists and civil society oppose the plans which are strongly supported by Minerals and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe who argues that a too sudden phasing out of coal will devastate communities dependent on the industry...

But green activists and civil society oppose the nuclear plans which are strongly supported by Minerals and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe...