Gwede Samson Mantashe

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...

Ramaphosa's advisory panel on land reform Vuyokazi 'Vuyo' Mahlati member of the National Planning Commission and president of the African Farmers' Association of South Africa (chair of panel) Ruth Hall researcher and professor at the University of the Western Cape's Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies Professor Abdus Salam Mohammad Karaan professor in agricultural economics at Stellenbosch University Daniel Kriek Free State commercial livestock farmer and president of AgriSA an umbrella group of farming associations Bulelwa Mabasa attorney with expertise in land restitution and reform Thato Moagi young emerging farmer (aged 27) and entrepreneur Thandi Ngcobo chief executive and founder of the Dr J L Dube Institute for Humanitarian and Development Praxis at the University of KwaZulu-Natal Tembeka Ngcukaitobi advocate public speaker and author whose work for the Legal Resources Centre and Johannesburg Bar spans public law labour law and competition Nick Serfontein chairman of Sernick Group which is cooperating with Ramaphosa; 2016 Free State Farmer of the Year and Mentor of the Year Wandile Sihlobo agricultural economist head of research at the Agricultural Business Chamber independent advisor to Afgrain Food Groups Called to account Opposition leader Mmusi Maimane of the Democratic Alliance has requested confirmation from the Zondo Commission into state capture that the following former and serving state officials be called to testify: Lynne Brown former Energy Minister Jessie Duarte ANC Deputy Secretary-General Arthur Fraser former spy chief/Director-General of the State Security Agency now National Commissioner of Correctional Services Malusi Gigaba former Finance Minister now Minister of Home Affairs David 'DD' Mabuza current Deputy President of the ANC and South Africa David Mahlobo former State Security Minister Gwede Mantashe Chairman of the African National Congress Tom Moyane former head of the South African Revenue Service the national tax collection agency Cyril Ramaphosa current ANC President and President of South Africa David Douglas 'Des' van Rooyen former Minister of Local Government Jacob Zuma former ANC President and President of the Republic of South Africa Mosebenzi Zwane former Minister of Mineral Resources ...