Gwede Samson Mantashe

Some ANC provincial premiers such as Gauteng’s David Makhura questioned the KZN ANC’s announcement; Zuma and ANC General Secretary Gwede Mantashe had banned ANC members and provinces from publicly campaigning until October...

Only the General Secretary Gwede Mantashe unambiguously supports Zuma’s re-election as President of the ANC...

A party team commissioned an expert report on the nationalisation of mines land and banks but the ANC General Secretary Gwede Mantashe sent it back for redrafting...

ANC Secretary General Gwede Mantashe announced in late May that South Africa would not focus on trade with Europe but on stronger economic and diplomatic ties with the BRICS group – Brazil Russia India and China...

Gwede Mantashe may have hoped for a quiet study tour in China but it was not to be...

One of the proxy wars between Zuma and Malema is likely to involve a bid by Sexwale using Malema’s forces to take over the ANC general secretaryship from Zuma ally Gwede Mantashe...

Another target of Zuma and his supporters is Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula the Youth League’s favourite to replace Gwede Mantashe as ANC General Secretary...

ANC General Secretary Gwede Mantashe’s annual confidential report on the state of the party which is intended for the National Executive Committee and which he has not yet delivered describes the ANC as in a ‘shambles’ riven by faction-fighting in groups for or against Zuma’s bid for re-election and by groups seeking access to state resources for personal gain...

Now Julius Malema and the ANCYL are campaigning to replace Zuma as ANC President and Gwede Mantashe as General Secretary...

They have called on their leaders – Nzimande Cronin Gwede Mantashe (SACP National Chairman and ANC General Secretary) and Rob Davies (Trade and Industry Minister) – to be more critical of Zuma and his government...