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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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Blame the judges

The judiciary in particular the Constitutional Court had remained above the fray until it was attacked by the ANC's General Secretary Gwede Mantashe formerly General Secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers and an influential Zuma ally...


The sick man of the south

ANC General Secretary Gwede Mantashe says the government must think in terms of the 'implication of a [Zimbabwean] collapse' following the poll...


Zuma's people on top

SACP Chairman Gwede Mantashe is the new ANC Secretary General with SACP General Secretary Blade Nzimande and fellow SACP member Ncumisa Kondlo both on the NEC's National Working Committee which runs day-to-day affairs...


The new men in place

However the current leadership of the SACP including its General Secretary Blade Nzimande and National Chairman Gwede Mantashe the former General Secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers are not so enamoured with China...


'Unstoppable tsunami'

SACP Chairman Gwede Mantashe foresaw that 'Prominent leaders will be hell-bent on attacking each other'...


Zuma, Buthelezi and the Zulu nation

Zuma's top-six list consists of Zuma for ANC president; ANC Secretary General Kgalema Motlanthe for deputy president; SACP Chairman Gwede Mantashe for secretary general; parliamentary Speaker Baleka Mbete for deputy secretary general; former Mpumalanga Premier Mathews Phosa for treasurer; and Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma as party chairperson...


No holds barred

This week the ANCYL national body announced that it would nominate Zuma for president of both the party and the nation at the December conference with Motlanthe for deputy president Gwede Mantashe for secretary general Mbete as his deputy Dlamini-Zuma as national chairwoman and as treasurer former Mpumalanga Province Premier Mathews Phosa a rival of Mbeki’s...


South Africa's Communists: The People

The following national officials were elected or re-elected at the South African Communist Party's National Conference on 11-14 July: Gwede Mantashe National Chairman formerly General Secretary National Union of Mineworkers (NUM); opposed to President Thabo Mbeki...


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