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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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Calls for protection against Beijing’s exports

Last year when South Africa refused to give a visa to the Dalai Lama ANC General Secretary Gwede Mantashe ANC NEC member Jessie Duarte Deputy Economic Development Minister Enoch Godongwana and all ANC provincial secretaries went to China for political exchanges...


Zuma or else

Gauteng and Eastern Cape provinces which are both opposed to Zuma have complained to ANC Secretary General Gwede Mantashe that some of their branches have not been ‘recognised’ by his office which is in charge of branch audits...


Zuma’s campaign pays off

The KZN ANC led by Zweli Mkhize wanted the Gauteng ANC led by Paul Mashatile to merge their slate of nominations for the top six leadership positions in the ANC but to retain Zuma as President Motlanthe as ANC Vice-President and Gwede Mantashe as ANC Secretary General...


Disunited unions

’ While many Cosatu members cheered his analysis Zuma-loyalists such as the NUM’s Baleni and ANC Secretary General Gwede Mantashe refused to accept that the government faced any sort of crisis...


The Marikana massacre

Zuma succeeded only in further outraging party members by appointing his running-mate ANC General Secretary Gwede Mantashe to resolve the dispute...


Battle of the unions

African National Congress General Secretary Gwede Mantashe was General Secretary of the NUM in the late 1990s...


Zuma delays judgement day

Zuma is helped by the fact that the ANC’s respected Secretary General Gwede Mantashe hails from Eastern Cape and is an accomplished political fixer...


Justice denied

The ANC delegation leader Secretary General Gwede Mantashe riposted: ‘The ANC does not ignore the rule of law so we respect the High Court ruling...


Higher taxes, less nationalisation

Zuma and his close allies including Justice Minister Jeff Radebe ANC General Secretary Gwede Mantashe and the head of the Government Communications Information System (GCIS) Jimmy Manyi have called for aspects of the constitution to be changed to promote what they call a ‘second transition’ an accelerated transfer of economic assets to black-owned companies...


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