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Gwede Samson Mantashe

Date of Birth: 21 June 1955
Place of Birth: Lower Cala Village, Transkei (now Eastern Cape Province)


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Politics and Pistorius in the dock

' ANC Secretary General Gwede Mantashe responded that Kasrils 'was disruptive reckless and counter-revolutionary' and blamed him for leading a protest that caused the death of nearly 30 demonstrators near Bisho Eastern Cape (then Ciskei) 22 years ago...


Nkandla report hurts Zuma

Secretary General Gwede Mantashe said its release so close to elections showed an intention to ‘muddy the waters in the election campaign' and called it a ‘political report'...


The ANC’s top hundred

The ANC's fiery Secretary General Gwede Mantashe played a central role in drawing up the national list and coordinating with the party's branches in the nine provinces...


Which ANC will win?

They detest its staunch tactical support for the Zuma presidency the position articulated by SACP Politburo member and ANC Secretary General Gwede Mantashe...


Zuma fights for his job

Yet the likelihood of a fightback under the determined and effective Secretary General Gwede Mantashe should not be underestimated...


Political mould starts to break

ANC Secretary General Gwede Mantashe and Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande respectively past and current SACP secretaries general exemplify the influence of the SACP at the highest levels of government and of the ANC...


Sexual congress

African National Congress (ANC) Secretary General Gwede Mantashe has also weighed in against Vavi saying that Cosatu's problem was the attempt by some to impose ‘a cult of personality'...


ANC wields the long knives

Zuma’s close ally the ANC General Secretary Gwede Mantashe has called the campaign a ‘clean-up’ to stop ‘ill-discipline and factionalism from overrunning the ANC’...


Swearing deputies

Now however ANC General Secretary Gwede Mantashe is challenging Ramaphosa for control of the governing party’s national leadership...


Ramaphosa’s price

ANC Secretary General and close Zuma-ally Gwede Mantashe tweeted back ‘That is a wrong public posture it is a wrong observation and if he believes in it he is going to be disappointed’...


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