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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Secretary_Yellen_meets_Minister_Gwede_Mantashe_2_%28cropped%29.jpg/220px-Secretary_Yellen_meets_Minister_Gwede_Mantashe_2_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="274" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Secretary_Yellen_meets_Minister_Gwede_Mantashe_2_%28cropped%29.jpg/330px-Secretary_Yellen_meets_Minister_Gwede_Mantashe_2_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Secretary_Yellen_meets_Minister_Gwede_Mantashe_2_%28cropped%29.jpg/440px-Secretary_Yellen_meets_Minister_Gwede_Mantashe_2_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2161" data-file-height="2696" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption" style="line-height:normal;padding-top:0.2em;">Mantashe in November 2022</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Mineral_and_Petroleum_Resources" title="Minister of Mineral and Petroleum Resources">Minister of Mineral and Petroleum&#160;Resources</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><div class="skin-nightmode-reset-color" style="width:100%; margin:0; color: black; background-color: lavender"><b><a href="/wiki/Incumbent" title="Incumbent">Incumbent</a></b></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>Assumed office</b></span>&#32;<br />3 July 2024</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">President</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Cyril_Ramaphosa" title="Cyril Ramaphosa">Cyril Ramaphosa</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Deputy</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Judith_Nemadzinga-Tshabalala" class="mw-redirect" title="Judith Nemadzinga-Tshabalala">Judith Nemadzinga-Tshabalala</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><i>Himself</i> (for Mineral Resources and Energy)</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/National_Assembly_of_South_Africa" title="National Assembly of South Africa">Member of the National Assembly</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><div class="skin-nightmode-reset-color" style="width:100%; margin:0; color: black; background-color: lavender"><b><a href="/wiki/Incumbent" title="Incumbent">Incumbent</a></b></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>Assumed office</b></span>&#32;<br />22 May 2019</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/National_Executive_Committee_of_the_African_National_Congress" title="National Executive Committee of the African National Congress">National Chairperson of the African National Congress</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><div class="skin-nightmode-reset-color" style="width:100%; margin:0; color: black; background-color: lavender"><b><a href="/wiki/Incumbent" title="Incumbent">Incumbent</a></b></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>Assumed office</b></span>&#32;<br />18 December 2017</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">President</th><td class="infobox-data">Cyril Ramaphosa</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Baleka_Mbete" title="Baleka Mbete">Baleka Mbete</a> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"> <table class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="; ; width:100%;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="2" style="line-height:normal; padding:0.2em; border:1px dashed lightgrey;;"><div style="text-align: center; padding: 0 0.4em; margin: 0 3.3em">Ministerial offices <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886047488">.mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}</style><span class="nobold">2018&#8205;&#8211;&#8205;2024</span></div></th> </tr><tr><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Mineral_Resources_and_Energy" class="mw-redirect" title="Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy">Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />29 May 2019&#160;–&#32;19 June 2024</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">President</th><td class="infobox-data">Cyril Ramaphosa</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Deputy</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bavelile_Hlongwa" title="Bavelile Hlongwa">Bavelile Hlongwa</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Nobuhle_Nkabane" title="Nobuhle Nkabane">Nobuhle Nkabane</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><i>Himself</i> (for Mineral Resources)</li><li><a href="/wiki/Jeff_Radebe" title="Jeff Radebe">Jeff Radebe</a> (for Energy)</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><i>Himself</i> (for Mineral and Petroleum Resources)</li><li><a href="/wiki/Kgosientsho_Ramokgopa" title="Kgosientsho Ramokgopa">Kgosientsho Ramokgopa</a> (for Electricity and Energy)</li></ul></div></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Mineral_Resources_(South_Africa)" class="mw-redirect" title="Minister of Mineral Resources (South Africa)">Minister of Mineral Resources</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />27 February 2018&#160;–&#32;7 May 2019</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">President</th><td class="infobox-data">Cyril Ramaphosa</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Deputy</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Godfrey_Oliphant" title="Godfrey Oliphant">Godfrey Oliphant</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Mosebenzi_Zwane" title="Mosebenzi Zwane">Mosebenzi Zwane</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><i>Himself</i> (for Mineral Resources and Energy) </td></tr></tbody></table> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"> <table class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="; ; width:100%;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="2" style="line-height:normal; padding:0.2em; border:1px dashed lightgrey;;"><div style="text-align: center; padding: 0 0.4em; margin: 0 3.3em">Prior offices <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886047488"><span class="nobold">1998&#8205;&#8211;&#8205;2012</span></div></th> </tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">15th&#32;<a href="/wiki/Secretary-General_of_the_African_National_Congress" class="mw-redirect" title="Secretary-General of the African National Congress">Secretary-General of the African National Congress</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />18 December 2007&#160;–&#32;18 December 2017</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">President</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Jacob_Zuma" title="Jacob Zuma">Jacob Zuma</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Kgalema_Motlanthe" title="Kgalema Motlanthe">Kgalema Motlanthe</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ace_Magashule" title="Ace Magashule">Ace Magashule</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/South_African_Communist_Party#Chairs" title="South African Communist Party">National Chairperson of the South African Communist Party</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />July 2007&#160;–&#32;July 2012</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Charles_Nqakula" title="Charles Nqakula">Charles Nqakula</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Senzeni_Zokwana" title="Senzeni Zokwana">Senzeni Zokwana</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">3rd <a href="/wiki/National_Union_of_Mineworkers_(South_Africa)" title="National Union of Mineworkers (South Africa)">Secretary-General of the National Union of Mineworkers</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />1998&#160;–&#32;May 2006</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">President</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/James_Motlatsi" title="James Motlatsi">James Motlatsi</a></li><li>Senzeni Zokwana</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Kgalema Motlanthe</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Frans_Baleni" title="Frans Baleni">Frans Baleni</a> </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Samson Gwede Mantashe</div><br /><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1955-06-21</span>) </span>21 June 1955<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age&#160;69)</span><br /><a href="/wiki/Cala,_Eastern_Cape" class="mw-redirect" title="Cala, Eastern Cape">Lower Cala</a>, <a href="/wiki/Union_of_South_Africa" title="Union of South Africa">South Africa</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/African_National_Congress" title="African National Congress">African National Congress</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Other political<br />affiliations</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/South_African_Communist_Party" title="South African Communist Party">South African Communist Party</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data">Nolwandle Mantashe</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Relatives</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Tozama_Mantashe" title="Tozama Mantashe">Tozama Mantashe</a> (sister)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Alma_mater" title="Alma mater">Alma mater</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/University_of_South_Africa" title="University of South Africa">University of South Africa</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/University_of_the_Witwatersrand" title="University of the Witwatersrand">University of the Witwatersrand</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Management_College_of_Southern_Africa" title="Management College of Southern Africa">Management College of Southern Africa</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ul{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist .mw-empty-li{display:none}.mw-parser-output .hlist dt::after{content:": "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li::after{content:" · ";font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .hlist 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dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:last-child::after{content:")";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol{counter-reset:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li{counter-increment:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li::before{content:" "counter(listitem)"\a0 "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li ol>li:first-child::before{content:" ("counter(listitem)"\a0 "}</style><div class="hlist"><ul><li>Politician</li><li>activist</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Samson Gwede Mantashe</b> (born 21 June 1955) is a South African politician and former <a href="/wiki/Trade_unions_in_South_Africa" title="Trade unions in South Africa">trade unionist</a> who is currently serving as the <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Mineral_and_Petroleum_Resources" title="Minister of Mineral and Petroleum Resources">Minister of Mineral and Petroleum Resources</a>. He has been responsible for the <a href="/wiki/Department_of_Mineral_Resources_(South_Africa)" title="Department of Mineral Resources (South Africa)">mineral resources</a> portfolio since February 2018, formerly as <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Mineral_Resources_(South_Africa)" class="mw-redirect" title="Minister of Mineral Resources (South Africa)">Minister of Mineral Resources</a> from February 2018 to May 2019 and then as <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Mineral_Resources_and_Energy" class="mw-redirect" title="Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy">Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy</a> from May 2019 to June 2024. He is also serving his second term as the national chairperson of the <a href="/wiki/African_National_Congress" title="African National Congress">African National Congress</a> (ANC). </p><p>Born in the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Cape" title="Eastern Cape">Eastern Cape</a>, Mantashe rose to political prominence through the <a href="/wiki/National_Union_of_Mineworkers_(South_Africa)" title="National Union of Mineworkers (South Africa)">National Union of Mineworkers</a> (NUM), which he joined at his workplace at <a href="/wiki/Matla_coal_mine" title="Matla coal mine">Matla Colliery</a>. He rose through the union's ranks, becoming a full-time organiser in 1988 and then deputising <a href="/wiki/Kgalema_Motlanthe" title="Kgalema Motlanthe">Kgalema Motlanthe</a> as the NUM's assistant general secretary from 1994 to 1998. He succeeded Motlanthe as general secretary from 1998 to 2006. During this period, he was also an influential member of the <a href="/wiki/Central_Committee_of_the_South_African_Communist_Party" title="Central Committee of the South African Communist Party">Central Committee</a> and Politburo of the <a href="/wiki/South_African_Communist_Party" title="South African Communist Party">South African Communist Party</a> (SACP). </p><p>After he ceded his union office to <a href="/wiki/Frans_Baleni" title="Frans Baleni">Frans Baleni</a> in May 2006, Mantashe worked briefly at the <a href="/wiki/Development_Bank_of_Southern_Africa" title="Development Bank of Southern Africa">Development Bank of Southern Africa</a>. At the ANC's <a href="/wiki/52nd_National_Conference_of_the_African_National_Congress" title="52nd National Conference of the African National Congress">52nd National Conference</a> in <a href="/wiki/Polokwane" title="Polokwane">Polokwane</a> in December 2007, he was elected as secretary-general of the ANC, a full-time position which he held for a decade, gaining re-election in <a href="/wiki/53rd_National_Conference_of_the_African_National_Congress" title="53rd National Conference of the African National Congress">December 2012</a>. He served concurrently as national chairperson of the SACP from 2007 to 2012. During his tenure as ANC secretary-general, he had a controversial role in defending President <a href="/wiki/Jacob_Zuma" title="Jacob Zuma">Jacob Zuma</a> against internal dissent and allegations of <a href="/wiki/State_capture" title="State capture">state capture</a>. </p><p>After two terms as secretary-general, Mantashe was elected as ANC national chairperson at the party's <a href="/wiki/54th_National_Conference_of_the_African_National_Congress" title="54th National Conference of the African National Congress">54th National Conference</a> in December 2017. President <a href="/wiki/Cyril_Ramaphosa" title="Cyril Ramaphosa">Cyril Ramaphosa</a> appointed him to <a href="/wiki/First_Cabinet_of_Cyril_Ramaphosa" title="First Cabinet of Cyril Ramaphosa">the cabinet</a> shortly thereafter, with his portfolio enlarged after the <a href="/wiki/2019_South_African_general_election" title="2019 South African general election">2019 general election</a> and then shrunk again after the <a href="/wiki/2024_South_African_general_election" title="2024 South African general election">2024 general election</a>. His public-facing work as minister has been dominated by the ongoing <a href="/wiki/South_African_energy_crisis" title="South African energy crisis">energy crisis in South Africa</a> and by proposals for a so-called just <a href="/wiki/Energy_transition" title="Energy transition">energy transition</a>. In that context, Mantashe has been criticised for his overt interest in <a href="/wiki/Coal_in_South_Africa" title="Coal in South Africa">coal</a>, <a href="/wiki/Natural_gas" title="Natural gas">natural gas</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Powership" title="Powership">powerships</a>, arguably at the expense of investment in <a href="/wiki/Renewable_energy" title="Renewable energy">renewable energy sources</a>. He was elected to a second term as ANC national chairperson in <a href="/wiki/55th_National_Conference_of_the_African_National_Congress" title="55th National Conference of the African National Congress">December 2022</a>, by then an important political ally of President Ramaphosa, and he remains a member of the SACP Central Committee. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gwede_Mantashe&amp;action=edit&amp;section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Mantashe was born on 21 June 1955 in <a href="/wiki/Cala,_South_Africa" title="Cala, South Africa">Lower Cala</a>, a village in the <a href="/wiki/Transkei" title="Transkei">Transkei</a> region of the former <a href="/wiki/Cape_Province" title="Cape Province">Cape Province</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:5_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He attended Matanzima High School in Cala, where his classmate <a href="/wiki/Enoch_Godongwana" title="Enoch Godongwana">Enoch Godongwana</a> said he was "a noisemaker, even then".<sup id="cite_ref-:15_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:15-2"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He became politically active in his youth as an activist in the Student Christian Movement.<sup id="cite_ref-:5_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>He attended university after the end of <a href="/wiki/Apartheid" title="Apartheid">apartheid</a>, completing a Bachelor of Commerce in 1997 and an <a href="/wiki/Honours_degree" title="Honours degree">Honours</a> in 2002, both at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_South_Africa" title="University of South Africa">University of South Africa</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:6_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:6-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He also holds a Master's degree in <a href="/wiki/Industrial_sociology" title="Industrial sociology">industrial sociology</a> from the <a href="/wiki/University_of_the_Witwatersrand" title="University of the Witwatersrand">University of the Witwatersrand</a>, completed in 2008,<sup id="cite_ref-:7_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:7-4"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and a Master of Business Administration from the <a href="/wiki/Management_College_of_Southern_Africa" title="Management College of Southern Africa">Management College of Southern Africa</a>, completed in 2021.<sup id="cite_ref-:6_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:6-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_trade_union_career">Early trade union career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gwede_Mantashe&amp;action=edit&amp;section=2" title="Edit section: Early trade union career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>For 13 years, Mantashe worked above-ground in <a href="/wiki/Mining_industry_of_South_Africa" title="Mining industry of South Africa">mining</a> in the Cape Province and <a href="/wiki/Transvaal_(province)" title="Transvaal (province)">Transvaal</a>, beginning in 1975 with a brief stint as a recreation officer at <a href="/wiki/Western_Deep_Levels" class="mw-redirect" title="Western Deep Levels">Western Deep Levels</a>, an <a href="/wiki/Anglo_American_plc" title="Anglo American plc">Anglo American</a> gold mine in <a href="/wiki/Carletonville" title="Carletonville">Carletonville, Transvaal</a>. From later in 1975 until 1982, he was the welfare officer at Prieska Copper Mines outside <a href="/wiki/Kimberley,_Northern_Cape" title="Kimberley, Northern Cape">Kimberley</a> in the Cape Province.<sup id="cite_ref-:5_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Then, in 1982, he moved to the <a href="/wiki/Matla_coal_mine" title="Matla coal mine">Matla Colliery</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Transvaal" class="mw-redirect" title="Eastern Transvaal">Eastern Transvaal</a>, where he co-founded the <a href="/wiki/Witbank" title="Witbank">Witbank</a> branch of the <a href="/wiki/National_Union_of_Mineworkers_(South_Africa)" title="National Union of Mineworkers (South Africa)">National Union of Mineworkers</a> (NUM), a national union newly established under the leadership of <a href="/wiki/Cyril_Ramaphosa" title="Cyril Ramaphosa">Cyril Ramaphosa</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:8_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:8-6"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>He was chairperson of the Witbank branch from 1982 to 1984, and in 1985 he was elected as regional secretary.<sup id="cite_ref-:5_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 1987, he stood for election as assistant general secretary of the national NUM but lost narrowly to <a href="/wiki/Marcel_Golding" title="Marcel Golding">Marcel Golding</a>, who received 572 votes to his 552.<sup id="cite_ref-:7_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:7-4"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The following year, he became a professional unionist, working as a national organiser for the NUM until he was promoted to regional coordinator in 1993.<sup id="cite_ref-:5_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:9_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:9-7"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1994, in a contest against Archie Palane,<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> he won election as assistant general secretary, deputising Ramaphosa's successor, <a href="/wiki/Kgalema_Motlanthe" title="Kgalema Motlanthe">Kgalema Motlanthe</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:9_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:9-7"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> During his term in that office, he also served part-time in the post-apartheid government as a <a href="/wiki/Local_government_in_South_Africa" class="mw-redirect" title="Local government in South Africa">local councillor</a> in <a href="/wiki/Ekurhuleni" class="mw-redirect" title="Ekurhuleni">Ekurhuleni</a> from 1994 to 1999.<sup id="cite_ref-:5_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In addition, in 1995, he was appointed to the board of directors of Samancor, a chrome producer listed on the <a href="/wiki/Johannesburg_Stock_Exchange" class="mw-redirect" title="Johannesburg Stock Exchange">Johannesburg Stock Exchange</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:6_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:6-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> This was an unusual move for a trade unionist at the time – it made national headlines<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> – and Mantashe explained that it represented a shift in industrial relations away from "confrontation" and towards "meaningful influence" by workers over corporate decision-making.<sup id="cite_ref-:9_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:9-7"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="NUM_general_secretary:_1998–2006"><span id="NUM_general_secretary:_1998.E2.80.932006"></span>NUM general secretary: 1998–2006</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gwede_Mantashe&amp;action=edit&amp;section=3" title="Edit section: NUM general secretary: 1998–2006"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After four years as assistant general secretary, Mantashe was elected in 1998 to succeed Motlanthe as general secretary. Motlanthe had stepped down after his <a href="/wiki/50th_National_Conference_of_the_African_National_Congress" title="50th National Conference of the African National Congress">election</a> as the secretary-general of the <a href="/wiki/African_National_Congress" title="African National Congress">African National Congress</a> (ANC).<sup id="cite_ref-:9_7-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:9-7"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to Raphaël Botiveau's history of the NUM, Mantashe's eight-year tenure was notable for his emphasis on discipline and <a href="/wiki/Democratic_centralism" title="Democratic centralism">democratic centralism</a> as organising principles, as well as for increasingly sophisticated bureaucratic management. In Botiveau's assessment, Mantashe made the NUM "more organised and disciplined than it had ever been" and "turned it into a powerful machine".<sup id="cite_ref-:9_7-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:9-7"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Early in his tenure, <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Mathunjwa" title="Joseph Mathunjwa">Joseph Mathunjwa</a> was expelled from the NUM and established a breakaway union, the <a href="/wiki/Association_of_Mineworkers_and_Construction_Union" title="Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union">Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Tripartite_Alliance">Tripartite Alliance</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gwede_Mantashe&amp;action=edit&amp;section=4" title="Edit section: Tripartite Alliance"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>During Mantashe's leadership of the union, the NUM was the largest affiliate of the <a href="/wiki/Congress_of_South_African_Trade_Unions" title="Congress of South African Trade Unions">Congress of South African Trade Unions</a> (Cosatu), which was linked to the <a href="/wiki/South_African_Communist_Party" title="South African Communist Party">South African Communist Party</a> (SACP) by way of the <a href="/wiki/Tripartite_Alliance" title="Tripartite Alliance">Tripartite Alliance</a>. Mantashe had been a member of the SACP <a href="/wiki/Central_Committee_of_the_South_African_Communist_Party" title="Central Committee of the South African Communist Party">Central Committee</a> and <a href="/wiki/Politburo" title="Politburo">Politburo</a> since 1995.<sup id="cite_ref-:10_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:10-11"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Indeed, his critics said that, under his leadership, the NUM became uncomfortably close to the SACP.<sup id="cite_ref-:9_7-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:9-7"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He was also a member of the ANC, Cosatu's other Tripartite Alliance partner. At the ANC's <a href="/wiki/51st_National_Conference_of_the_African_National_Congress" title="51st National Conference of the African National Congress">51st National Conference</a> in December 2002, he was nominated to stand for election to the ANC <a href="/wiki/National_Executive_Committee_of_the_African_National_Congress" title="National Executive Committee of the African National Congress">National Executive Committee</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> but he was not elected. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Succession_and_aftermath">Succession and aftermath</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gwede_Mantashe&amp;action=edit&amp;section=5" title="Edit section: Succession and aftermath"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Mantashe stepped down from the NUM leadership at the union's 12th national conference in May 2006.<sup id="cite_ref-:5_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He was succeeded by <a href="/wiki/Frans_Baleni" title="Frans Baleni">Frans Baleni</a>, who was viewed as his protégé.<sup id="cite_ref-:9_7-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:9-7"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> After that, he served two years as executive manager for strategic initiatives at the <a href="/wiki/Development_Bank_of_Southern_Africa" title="Development Bank of Southern Africa">Development Bank of Southern Africa</a>, where he was also the chairperson of the technical working group of the Joint Initiative for Priority Skills Acquisition.<sup id="cite_ref-:8_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:8-6"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>A year after leaving the NUM, in July 2007, Mantashe was elected unopposed to succeed <a href="/wiki/Charles_Nqakula" title="Charles Nqakula">Charles Nqakula</a> as national chairperson of the SACP. He served under general secretary <a href="/wiki/Blade_Nzimande" title="Blade Nzimande">Blade Nzimande</a>, with <a href="/wiki/Ncumisa_Kondlo" title="Ncumisa Kondlo">Ncumisa Kondlo</a> as his deputy.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Within six weeks of his SACP election, he had emerged as a frontrunner for election to higher ANC office too.<sup id="cite_ref-:11_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:11-15"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="ANC_secretary-general:_2007–2017"><span id="ANC_secretary-general:_2007.E2.80.932017"></span>ANC secretary-general: 2007–2017</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gwede_Mantashe&amp;action=edit&amp;section=6" title="Edit section: ANC secretary-general: 2007–2017"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>At the ANC's <a href="/wiki/52nd_National_Conference_of_the_African_National_Congress" title="52nd National Conference of the African National Congress">52nd National Conference</a>, held in December 2007 in <a href="/wiki/Polokwane" title="Polokwane">Polokwane</a>, Mantashe was elected as ANC secretary-general. He succeeded Kgalema Motlanthe, who was also his predecessor at the NUM. He had stood on a slate of candidates aligned to successful presidential candidate <a href="/wiki/Jacob_Zuma" title="Jacob Zuma">Jacob Zuma</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-:11_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:11-15"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> their slate had been endorsed by Cosatu and by the <a href="/wiki/ANC_Youth_League" class="mw-redirect" title="ANC Youth League">ANC Youth League</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The opposing candidate, <a href="/wiki/Mosiuoa_Lekota" title="Mosiuoa Lekota">Mosiuoa Lekota</a>, stood on a slate aligned to outgoing president <a href="/wiki/Thabo_Mbeki" title="Thabo Mbeki">Thabo Mbeki</a>; Mantashe received 2,378 votes to Lekota's 1,432.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Among his first tasks upon taking office was managing the fall-out from the 52nd National Conference, which intensified divisions between supporters of Mbeki and supporters of Zuma. In September 2008, it was Mantashe who announced that the ANC National Executive Committee had decided to "recall" Mbeki from his office as <a href="/wiki/President_of_South_Africa" title="President of South Africa">President of South Africa</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In the aftermath, when Lekota and <a href="/wiki/Sam_Shilowa" class="mw-redirect" title="Sam Shilowa">Sam Shilowa</a> broke away from the ANC to establish the <a href="/wiki/Congress_of_the_People_(South_African_political_party)" title="Congress of the People (South African political party)">Congress of the People</a> (COPE), Mantashe oversaw the ANC's programme to compete with COPE and recoup support lost to the new party in the <a href="/wiki/2009_South_African_general_election" title="2009 South African general election">2009 general election</a>.<b><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></b> In the summation of journalist Stephen Grootes, "What threatened to become a split [in the ANC] became only a splinter", which Grootes credited partly to Mantashe's management of the situation.<sup id="cite_ref-:16_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:16-21"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Mantashe was re-elected to a second term at the <a href="/wiki/53rd_National_Conference_of_the_African_National_Congress" title="53rd National Conference of the African National Congress">53rd National Conference</a> in <a href="/wiki/Mangaung" class="mw-redirect" title="Mangaung">Mangaung</a> in December 2012. On that occasion, again running alongside Zuma, he beat <a href="/wiki/Fikile_Mbalula" title="Fikile Mbalula">Fikile Mbalula</a> in a landslide, receiving 3,058 votes against Mbalula's 908.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="SACP_chairmanship">SACP chairmanship</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gwede_Mantashe&amp;action=edit&amp;section=7" title="Edit section: SACP chairmanship"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In tandem with his ANC responsibilities, Mantashe served the remainder of his five-year term as SACP national chairperson, although his dual roles sometimes caused tensions in the Tripartite Alliance. In December 2009, supporters of ANC Youth League president <a href="/wiki/Julius_Malema" title="Julius Malema">Julius Malema</a> called for Mantashe to choose between the two positions after Malema and <a href="/wiki/Tony_Yengeni" title="Tony Yengeni">Tony Yengeni</a> were booed at an SACP gathering in Polokwane. The ANC Youth League accused Mantashe of failing to defend Malema, as they argued the ANC secretary-general should, because his dual roles gave rise to a conflict of interest.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><b><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></b> <a href="/wiki/Irvin_Jim" title="Irvin Jim">Irvin Jim</a> of the <a href="/wiki/National_Union_of_Metalworkers_of_South_Africa" title="National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa">National Union of Metalworkers</a> defended Mantashe, saying that Malema had taken an "anti-Cosatu and anti-SACP posture, a stance that is unprovoked" and that "Mantashe is being singled out and targeted because he is a communist".<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>At the next SACP congress, held at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Zululand" title="University of Zululand">University of Zululand</a> in July 2012, Mantashe declined a nomination to stand for re-election as chairperson.<sup id="cite_ref-:12_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:12-26"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In his outgoing speech to the congress, he said that he was stepping down on practical grounds, saying, "Being an official in both parties is just impossible. It leads a person to be an absentee chairperson in the party. That is a disservice to the party".<sup id="cite_ref-:13_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:13-27"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> However, he said he was "grateful" for the experience, having gained "a broader horizon from which we could observe each individual component of our revolution" and emerged with "a deeper understanding of the contradictions in the movement".<sup id="cite_ref-:13_27-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:13-27"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Senzeni_Zokwana" title="Senzeni Zokwana">Senzeni Zokwana</a>, also of the NUM, was elected to succeed him as chairperson, and he was elected to return as an ordinary member of the SACP Central Committee; he received the most votes of any candidate.<sup id="cite_ref-:12_26-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:12-26"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He was also re-elected to the Central Committee at the next congress in 2017, though from 2017 onwards he dropped off the party's politburo.<sup id="cite_ref-:10_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:10-11"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Defence_of_Jacob_Zuma">Defence of Jacob Zuma</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gwede_Mantashe&amp;action=edit&amp;section=8" title="Edit section: Defence of Jacob Zuma"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The post of secretary-general was based full-time out of ANC headquarters at <a href="/wiki/Luthuli_House" title="Luthuli House">Luthuli House</a> in <a href="/wiki/Johannesburg" title="Johannesburg">Johannesburg</a>, and Mantashe – despite financial difficulties in the ANC during his tenure<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> – was viewed as wielding particular power in the office, especially during his second term.<b><sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></b> Described by the <i><a href="/wiki/Mail_%26_Guardian" title="Mail &amp; Guardian">Mail &amp; Guardian</a></i> as "cantankerous",<sup id="cite_ref-:15_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:15-2"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> he was renowned among journalists for telephoning them to remonstrate about their reporting.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Richard_Calland" title="Richard Calland">Richard Calland</a> labelled him "the ultimate political traffic warden inside and outside the ANC".<sup id="cite_ref-:17_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:17-31"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> His tenure lasted throughout Zuma's two <a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Jacob_Zuma" title="Presidency of Jacob Zuma">terms in the national presidency</a>, which were marred by allegations that his administration had been <a href="/wiki/State_capture" title="State capture">captured</a> by business interests. Mantashe's critics alleged that he was a key figure in the ANC's efforts to shield Zuma from accountability.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 2013, for example, after the notorious <a href="/wiki/Gupta_family#&quot;Guptagate&quot;_wedding_controversy" title="Gupta family">Waterkloof Air Base landing</a>, Mantashe maintained that the nature of Zuma's relationship with the <a href="/wiki/Gupta_family" title="Gupta family">Gupta family</a> was not ANC business.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Similarly, he was a prominent figure in the ANC's successful campaign to thwart the multiple <a href="/wiki/Motion_of_no_confidence" title="Motion of no confidence">motions of no confidence</a> that opposition parties lodged against Zuma in <a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_South_Africa" title="Parliament of South Africa">Parliament</a>. In June 2017, the <a href="/wiki/Constitutional_Court_of_South_Africa" title="Constitutional Court of South Africa">Constitutional Court</a> ruled in response to an application by the <a href="/wiki/United_Democratic_Movement" title="United Democratic Movement">United Democratic Movement</a> that Members of Parliament should <a href="/wiki/Conscience_vote" title="Conscience vote">vote with their conscience</a> in motions of no confidence and that the <a href="/wiki/Speaker_of_the_National_Assembly_of_South_Africa" title="Speaker of the National Assembly of South Africa">Speaker of the National Assembly</a> therefore had the power to prescribe a secret ballot in such motions. Former ANC MP <a href="/wiki/Makhosi_Khoza" title="Makhosi Khoza">Makhosi Khoza</a> later said that Mantashe had told the party's representatives to ignore the Constitutional Court's advice and that, in Khoza's summation, "anyone who sought to uphold the rule of law will be severely punished".<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Indeed, Mantashe openly warned in 2017 that ANC MPs who voted in favour of motions of no confidence risked disciplinary action, including dismissal; he said that the ANC did not subscribe to the notion of conscience votes in such matters.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:18_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:18-37"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Mantashe told the <i><a href="/wiki/Daily_Maverick" title="Daily Maverick">Daily Maverick</a></i> in June 2017 that ANC support for a motion of no confidence in Zuma would be still more destabilising than the events that led to the formation of COPE in 2008: "The recall of Thabo Mbeki will be like a Sunday picnic."<sup id="cite_ref-:19_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:19-38"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1224211176">.mw-parser-output .quotebox{background-color:#F9F9F9;border:1px solid #aaa;box-sizing:border-box;padding:10px;font-size:88%;max-width:100%}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft{margin:.5em 1.4em .8em 0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright{margin:.5em 0 .8em 1.4em}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.centered{overflow:hidden;position:relative;margin:.5em auto .8em auto}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft span,.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright span{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox>blockquote{margin:0;padding:0;border-left:0;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-title{text-align:center;font-size:110%;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote>:first-child{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote:last-child>:last-child{margin-bottom:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:before{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" “ ";vertical-align:-45%;line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:after{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" ” ";line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .left-aligned{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .right-aligned{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .center-aligned{text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quote-title,.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quotebox-quote{display:block}.mw-parser-output .quotebox cite{display:block;font-style:normal}@media screen and (max-width:640px){.mw-parser-output .quotebox{width:100%!important;margin:0 0 .8em!important;float:none!important}}</style><div class="quotebox pullquote floatright" style="width:22%; ;"> <blockquote class="quotebox-quote left-aligned" style=""> <p>There is no ANC member who will vote for an opposition motion, that will be uncharacteristic of the ANC... What do you think the ANC is, <a href="/wiki/Father_Christmas" title="Father Christmas">Father Christmas</a>? I don't know where this notion comes from that we are a collection of individuals who have conscience. We are members of ANC in a party political system. No army in the world allows soldiers to be commanded by enemy general. </p> </blockquote> <div style="padding-bottom: 0; padding-top: 0.5em"><cite class="left-aligned" style="">– Mantashe responds to calls for ANC representatives to <a href="/wiki/Conscience_vote" title="Conscience vote">vote with their conscience</a> against President Zuma, April 2017<sup id="cite_ref-:18_37-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:18-37"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></cite></div> </div><p> Mantashe continued to defend this view years later, telling the <a href="/wiki/Zondo_Commission" title="Zondo Commission">Zondo Commission</a>, a public inquiry into state capture, that <a href="/wiki/Party_discipline" title="Party discipline">party discipline</a> on such matters was essential to ensuring the stability of the ANC and therefore the stability of the government and country.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He argued that allowing the party's own representatives to vote against their leader would lead to serious division and political crisis, and would therefore be tantamount to <a href="/wiki/Cutting_off_one%27s_nose_to_spite_one%27s_face" title="Cutting off one&#39;s nose to spite one&#39;s face">cutting off your nose to spite your face</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:20_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:20-41"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He said that the ANC allowed conscience votes on other issues, but: </p><blockquote><p>...on political matters that affect the heart of the ANC, we cannot allow a free-for-all. The ANC is a political party with policies. People who go to parliament on an ANC <a href="/wiki/Party_list" class="mw-redirect" title="Party list">list</a> understand those policies and go on the basis of implementing those policies.<sup id="cite_ref-:20_41-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:20-41"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p></blockquote><p>He also defended the ANC's practice of <a href="/wiki/Cadre_deployment" class="mw-redirect" title="Cadre deployment">cadre deployment</a>, which some critics blamed for facilitating state capture; among other things, Mantashe argued that cadre deployment was a necessary means to transforming the apartheid-era civil service that the ANC had inherited.<sup id="cite_ref-cadre_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cadre-42"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>During Zuma's presidency, Mantashe's primary concern was to obstruct parliamentary no-confidence motions lodged by opposition parties. He was much more sanguine about the prospect of Zuma being removed from the ANC presidency – and thereafter from the national presidency – by his own party through internal ANC mechanisms. He was open in admitting that Zuma faced internal dissent<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:19_38-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:19-38"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and in speculating that he could be removed from the national presidency after he was succeeded as ANC president.<sup id="cite_ref-:21_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:21-44"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> By mid-2017, he said openly that state capture was "a reality",<sup id="cite_ref-:19_38-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:19-38"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> explicitly dismissing attempts by Zuma's supporters to redirect public focus to so-called <a href="/wiki/White_monopoly_capital" title="White monopoly capital">white monopoly capital</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:22_46-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:22-46"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He told international press that revelations of state capture, involving ANC politicians, were damaging the party's reputation, and he called for the establishment of a judicial inquiry into the allegations at a time when Zuma was resisting such calls.<sup id="cite_ref-:21_44-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:21-44"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He also welcomed the <a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Jacob_Zuma#Gupta_Leaks:_2017–2018" title="Presidency of Jacob Zuma">Gupta leaks</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:22_46-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:22-46"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Mantashe later said that he and other ANC leaders had first become concerned about the Gupta family's influence after the Waterkloof landing in 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-Haffajee_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Haffajee-47"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Observers first noticed tensions two years later, after the controversial <a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Jacob_Zuma#Dismissal_of_Nhlanhla_Nene:_December_2015" title="Presidency of Jacob Zuma">December 2015 cabinet reshuffle</a> in which Zuma replaced Finance Minister <a href="/wiki/Nhlanhla_Nene" title="Nhlanhla Nene">Nhlanhla Nene</a> with <a href="/wiki/Des_van_Rooyen" title="Des van Rooyen">Des van Rooyen</a>. In what was described as a turning point for Mantashe, the ANC responded coldly to the reshuffle,<sup id="cite_ref-:16_21-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:16-21"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:17_31-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:17-31"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and Mantashe personally was apparently involved in forcing Zuma to reverse van Rooyen's appointment.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> When the new Finance Minister, <a href="/wiki/Pravin_Gordhan" title="Pravin Gordhan">Pravin Gordhan</a>, <a href="/wiki/South_African_Revenue_Service#Allegations_against_Pravin_Gordhan" title="South African Revenue Service">faced fraud charges</a> three months later, Mantashe was supportive of Gordhan,<sup id="cite_ref-:16_21-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:16-21"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:17_31-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:17-31"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and he released a statement on behalf of the ANC expressing concern about the fraud investigation and reaffirming the party's confidence in Gordhan.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Gordhan was sacked in <a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Jacob_Zuma#Dismissal_of_Pravin_Gordhan:_March_2017" title="Presidency of Jacob Zuma">another controversial reshuffle</a> in October 2017, and <a href="/wiki/News24_(website)" title="News24 (website)">News24</a>'s sources said that Mantashe had been among the party leaders who had attempted to persuade Zuma to retain Gordhan.<sup id="cite_ref-:23_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:23-50"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Mantashe confirmed that he had disagreed with Zuma, saying that "for the first time", Zuma had had to invoke his constitutional prerogative as national president to overrule the ANC on the composition of the cabinet.<sup id="cite_ref-:23_50-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:23-50"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> However, several days later, Mantashe appeared to reverse himself, telling the press that the ANC had decided to accept Zuma's decision – and his justification of an "irretrievable breakdown" of his relationship with Gordhan – and to "close ranks" around the president.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> This and similar reversals led <a href="/wiki/Social_media" title="Social media">social media</a> to devise the verb "Mantash", popularised by Julius Malema, to describe such backtracking.<sup id="cite_ref-:15_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:15-2"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:16_21-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:16-21"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Yet when Zuma sacked Blade Nzimande of the SACP from the cabinet in October 2017, Mantashe was again publicly critical: he said that the party had not been consulted, called the decision a "pity", and warned that frequent reshuffles could destabilise the government.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> By the end of 2017, journalists suspected that Mantashe's personal relationship with Zuma had seriously deteriorated.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Secretary_Yellen_meets_Minister_Gwede_Mantashe.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Secretary_Yellen_meets_Minister_Gwede_Mantashe.jpg/200px-Secretary_Yellen_meets_Minister_Gwede_Mantashe.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="300" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Secretary_Yellen_meets_Minister_Gwede_Mantashe.jpg/300px-Secretary_Yellen_meets_Minister_Gwede_Mantashe.jpg 1.5x, 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as secretary-general but instead was elected as the ANC's national chairperson. He beat <a href="/wiki/Nathi_Mthethwa" title="Nathi Mthethwa">Nathi Mthethwa</a> in a vote, receiving 2,418 votes against Mthethwa's 2,269.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Ace_Magashule" title="Ace Magashule">Ace Magashule</a> was narrowly elected to succeed him as secretary-general. For some time before the election,<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Mantashe was viewed as broadly aligned to the winning presidential candidate, NUM founder and deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa,<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> who had publicly announced that Mantashe was his preferred candidate for the chairmanship.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In turn, Mantashe had endorsed Ramaphosa's presidential run, to the consternation of Ramaphosa's opponents in the ANC leadership;<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> he argued that the ANC had a tradition of leadership succession by the deputy president, which he said should be maintained in the interest of stability.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Mantashe <a href="/wiki/Tweeted" class="mw-redirect" title="Tweeted">Tweeted</a> lightheartedly that, having vacated the full-time ANC secretariat, he was "unemployed" and looking for a job.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Meanwhile, in the aftermath of the conference, Ramaphosa's supporters set about effecting Zuma's recall from the Presidency of South Africa, threatening to support a parliamentary motion of no confidence if he did not resign voluntarily. Mantashe said at a political rally in <a href="/wiki/Butterworth,_South_Africa" title="Butterworth, South Africa">Butterworth</a>, "When you resist the call to resign you leave us no choice but to let you fry in the vote of no-confidence motion because it means you do not respect the organisation [the ANC]".<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Minister_of_responsible_for_Mineral_Resources:_2018–present"><span id="Minister_of_responsible_for_Mineral_Resources:_2018.E2.80.93present"></span>Minister of responsible for Mineral Resources: 2018–present</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gwede_Mantashe&amp;action=edit&amp;section=10" title="Edit section: Minister of responsible for Mineral Resources: 2018–present"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After Ramaphosa was <a href="/wiki/2018_South_African_presidential_election" title="2018 South African presidential election">elected</a> to succeed Zuma as President of South Africa in February 2018, he appointed Mantashe to <a href="/wiki/First_Cabinet_of_Cyril_Ramaphosa" title="First Cabinet of Cyril Ramaphosa">his cabinet</a> in a reshuffle on 26 February. Mantashe was named to replace <a href="/wiki/Mosebenzi_Zwane" title="Mosebenzi Zwane">Mosebenzi Zwane</a> as <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Mineral_Resources_(South_Africa)" class="mw-redirect" title="Minister of Mineral Resources (South Africa)">Minister of Mineral Resources</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> At the time his appointment was welcomed by the <a href="/wiki/South_African_Chamber_of_Mines" class="mw-redirect" title="South African Chamber of Mines">Chamber of Mines</a> and <a href="/wiki/Business_Leadership_South_Africa" title="Business Leadership South Africa">Business Leadership South Africa</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He was one of two ministers appointed from outside Parliament,<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> until he was elected to a seat in the <a href="/wiki/National_Assembly_of_South_Africa" title="National Assembly of South Africa">National Assembly</a> in the <a href="/wiki/2019_South_African_general_election" title="2019 South African general election">May 2019 general election</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> After the 2019 election, announcing <a href="/wiki/Second_Cabinet_of_Cyril_Ramaphosa" title="Second Cabinet of Cyril Ramaphosa">his second cabinet</a>, Ramaphosa announced a ministerial merger that saw Mantashe take over an enlarged portfolio as <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Mineral_Resources_and_Energy" class="mw-redirect" title="Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy">Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In February 2023, as a direct result of the worsening <a href="/wiki/South_African_energy_crisis" title="South African energy crisis">electricity crisis</a> in the country, Ramaphosa appointed <a href="/wiki/Kgosientsho_Ramokgopa" title="Kgosientsho Ramokgopa">Kgosientso Ramokgopa</a> as a new <a href="/wiki/Minister_in_the_Presidency_for_Electricity" class="mw-redirect" title="Minister in the Presidency for Electricity">Minister in the Presidency for Electricity</a>, indicating that this function would be located within the presidency for a limited period. On 30 June 2024, following the <a href="/wiki/2024_South_African_general_election" title="2024 South African general election">2024 general election</a>, this change was made permanent by <a href="/wiki/Kgosientsho_Ramokgopa" title="Kgosientsho Ramokgopa">Ramokgopa</a> being appointed as <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Electricity_and_Energy" title="Minister of Electricity and Energy">Minister of Electricity and Energy</a>, with Mantashe's ministerial portfolio being limited to that of <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Mineral_and_Petroleum_Resources" title="Minister of Mineral and Petroleum Resources">Mineral and Petroleum Resources</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Just_energy_transition">Just energy transition</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gwede_Mantashe&amp;action=edit&amp;section=11" title="Edit section: Just energy transition"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div><p> Mantashe took office as Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy amid a decades-long <a href="/wiki/South_African_energy_crisis" title="South African energy crisis">energy crisis in South Africa</a>, caused by a shortfall in electricity generation capacity. Among his first tasks was to draft an updated <a href="/wiki/Integrated_Resource_Plan" title="Integrated Resource Plan">Integrated Resource Plan</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and he said that his ministry would consider all energy sources in devising a solution to the crisis.<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> However, the media soon nicknamed him "Old King Coal" for his outspoken defence of the dominance of <a href="/wiki/Coal_in_South_Africa" title="Coal in South Africa">coal</a> in South African energy supply,<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> an arrangement that he said would "outlive many of us".<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He also embraced being labelled a "coal fundamentalist" by the media and – according to him – by President Ramaphosa.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_75-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-75"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:1_76-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-76"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></p><figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Minister_Gwede_Mantashe_with_Janet_Yellen_and_Reuben_Brigety.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Minister_Gwede_Mantashe_with_Janet_Yellen_and_Reuben_Brigety.jpg/220px-Minister_Gwede_Mantashe_with_Janet_Yellen_and_Reuben_Brigety.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Minister_Gwede_Mantashe_with_Janet_Yellen_and_Reuben_Brigety.jpg/330px-Minister_Gwede_Mantashe_with_Janet_Yellen_and_Reuben_Brigety.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Minister_Gwede_Mantashe_with_Janet_Yellen_and_Reuben_Brigety.jpg/440px-Minister_Gwede_Mantashe_with_Janet_Yellen_and_Reuben_Brigety.jpg 2x" data-file-width="6000" data-file-height="4000" /></a><figcaption>Mantashe with Yellen and <a href="/wiki/Reuben_Brigety" title="Reuben Brigety">Reuben Brigety</a> in November 2022</figcaption></figure><p>Mantashe linked his support for the coal sector to the notion of the so-called just energy transition, the outcome of which would be socially equitable as well as environmentally sustainable, as envisaged in the <a href="/wiki/National_Development_Plan" title="National Development Plan">National Development Plan</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_77-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-77"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In his view, there was consensus in South Africa on the need for an energy transition in the sense of a reduction in <a href="/wiki/Carbon_emissions" class="mw-redirect" title="Carbon emissions">carbon emissions</a> to respond to the <a href="/wiki/Global_climate_crisis" class="mw-redirect" title="Global climate crisis">global climate crisis</a>; however, he disputed whether that imperative implied a transition from coal to <a href="/wiki/Renewable_energy_sources" class="mw-redirect" title="Renewable energy sources">renewable energy sources</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_77-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-77"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He argued that South Africa had abundant coal resources, that the coal sector contributed to the <a href="/wiki/Economy_of_South_Africa" title="Economy of South Africa">South African economy</a> and <a href="/wiki/Black_Economic_Empowerment" title="Black Economic Empowerment">black entrepreneurship</a>, and that decommissioning coal power plants too hastily would harm the livelihoods of coal-mining communities and exacerbate the shortage of energy generation capacity.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_79-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-79"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:2_77-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-77"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:0_75-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-75"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> For these reasons, Mantashe pronounced coal an important element of the just energy transition.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_79-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-79"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Mantashe's critics alleged that he obstructed the approval of new energy generation projects, thus delaying the energy transition and the resolution of the electricity crisis.<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Writing in the <i><a href="/wiki/Business_Day_(South_Africa)" title="Business Day (South Africa)">Business Day</a></i>, Anthony Butler said that, "Mantashe resembles the <a href="/wiki/King_Canute" class="mw-redirect" title="King Canute">King Canute</a> of energy: an old man trying to hold back the tides."<sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On another occasion, in what was interpreted as veiled criticism of Mantashe,<sup id="cite_ref-:4_82-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-82"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/w/index.php?title=Crispian_Olver&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Crispian Olver (page does not exist)">Crispian Olver</a> of the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidential_Climate_Commission&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Presidential Climate Commission (page does not exist)">Presidential Climate Commission</a> said that, "the old idea that someone’s sitting in charge of <a href="/wiki/Department_of_Mineral_Resources_and_Energy" title="Department of Mineral Resources and Energy">[the Department of] Mineral Resources and Energy</a> could dictate the pace at which this transition happens – it's <a href="/wiki/The_Emperor%27s_New_Clothes" title="The Emperor&#39;s New Clothes">the emperor with no clothes</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>He was also unpopular with <a href="/wiki/Environmental_activists" class="mw-redirect" title="Environmental activists">environmental activists</a> for his defence of <a href="/wiki/Shell_plc" title="Shell plc">Shell</a>'s right to conduct <a href="/wiki/Gas_exploration" class="mw-redirect" title="Gas exploration">gas exploration</a> off the <a href="/wiki/Wild_Coast_Region,_Eastern_Cape" title="Wild Coast Region, Eastern Cape">Wild Coast</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> as well as for his proposal to procure <a href="/wiki/Powership" title="Powership">powerships</a> at the country's major ports.<sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:4_82-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-82"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In December 2021, he accused opponents of the Shell project of "apartheid and <a href="/wiki/Colonialism" title="Colonialism">colonialism</a> of a special type, masqueraded as a great interest for environmental protection."<sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He also launched several public attacks on <a href="/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_de_Ruyter" title="André de Ruyter">André de Ruyter</a>, the chief executive officer of power utility <a href="/wiki/Eskom" title="Eskom">Eskom</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> de Ruyter resigned in December 2022 shortly after Mantashe alleged that "Eskom, by not attending to <a href="/wiki/Load_shedding" class="mw-redirect" title="Load shedding">load shedding</a>, is actively agitating for the overthrow of the state".<sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In this context, during his February 2023 <a href="/wiki/State_of_the_Nation_Address_(South_Africa)" title="State of the Nation Address (South Africa)">State of the Nation Address</a>, Ramaphosa announced the establishment of a new <a href="/wiki/Minister_in_the_Presidency_for_Electricity" class="mw-redirect" title="Minister in the Presidency for Electricity">Minister in the Presidency for Electricity</a>. Observers raised the prospect that the new ministry would tranche on existing portfolios, possibly creating conflict between Mantashe and the new minister, <a href="/wiki/Kgosientsho_Ramokgopa" title="Kgosientsho Ramokgopa">Kgosientso Ramokgopa</a>, as well as with the <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Public_Enterprises" title="Minister of Public Enterprises">Minister of Public Enterprises</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pravin_Gordhan" title="Pravin Gordhan">Pravin Gordhan</a>, who oversaw Eskom.<sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In May 2023, Ramaphosa gave Ramokgopa responsibility for procuring new electricity generation capacity, until then a function of Mantashe's department.<sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The following month, in what was perceived as a challenge to Ramaphosa's authority,<sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Mantashe did not attend a high-level meeting for the signing of Ramaphosa's <a href="/wiki/United_States_dollar" title="United States dollar">$</a>1-billion <a href="/wiki/Green_energy" class="mw-redirect" title="Green energy">green energy</a> agreement with the Netherlands and Denmark.<sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1224211176"><div class="quotebox pullquote floatright" style="width:22%; ;"> <blockquote class="quotebox-quote left-aligned" style=""> <p>This thing of saying destroy coal quickly is second to <a href="/wiki/Nongqawuse" title="Nongqawuse">Nongqawuse</a>... a prophet who said we must <a href="/wiki/Xhosa_cattle-killing_movement" class="mw-redirect" title="Xhosa cattle-killing movement">kill all our cattle</a> and we will be rich. We are still waiting for those riches. I'm saying, you don’t destroy what you have on the basis of hope that something better is coming. You build on what you know and what you have. </p> </blockquote> <div style="padding-bottom: 0; padding-top: 0.5em"><cite class="left-aligned" style="">– Mantashe on the renewable energy transition, January 2022<sup id="cite_ref-:1_76-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-76"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></cite></div> </div> <p>On 30 June 2024, following the <a href="/wiki/2024_South_African_general_election" title="2024 South African general election">2024 general election</a>, the allocation of electricity to <a href="/wiki/Kgosientsho_Ramokgopa" title="Kgosientsho Ramokgopa">Ramokgopa</a> was made peremanent, with him being appointed as <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Electricity_and_Energy" title="Minister of Electricity and Energy">Minister of Electricity and Energy</a>, with Mantashe's ministerial portfolio being limited to that of <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Mineral_and_Petroleum_Resources" title="Minister of Mineral and Petroleum Resources">Mineral and Petroleum Resources</a>. On 3 July 2024, they were both sworn in regarding their respective portfolios.<sup id="cite_ref-DMInitialSwearingin_94-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DMInitialSwearingin-94"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Zondo_Commission_finding">Zondo Commission finding</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gwede_Mantashe&amp;action=edit&amp;section=12" title="Edit section: Zondo Commission finding"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 1 March 2022, the Zondo Commission published the installment of its report on <a href="/wiki/Bosasa" title="Bosasa">Bosasa</a>, which included the recommendation that Mantashe should be investigated for criminal <a href="/wiki/Corruption" title="Corruption">corruption</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-95" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-95"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The recommendation arose from Mantashe's relationship with a former Bosasa director, who in 2013 – while Mantashe was ANC secretary-general – had arranged for Bosasa to install security systems free of charge at Mantashe's three homes (one in Cala, one in <a href="/wiki/Boksburg" title="Boksburg">Boksburg</a>, and one in <a href="/wiki/Elliot,_South_Africa" title="Elliot, South Africa">Khowa</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-:14_96-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:14-96"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In testimony to the inquiry, Mantashe had confirmed that the security installations were made for free, but denied that there was anything untoward in the arrangement, saying, among other things, that he was "not amenable to <a href="/wiki/Bribery" title="Bribery">bribes</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-97" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-97"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The commission's report concluded that Bosasa, which was a state contractor in <a href="/wiki/Department_of_Correctional_Services_(South_Africa)" title="Department of Correctional Services (South Africa)">correctional services</a>, had widely bribed ANC politicians. In Mantashe case, it registered "reasonable suspicion" that Mantashe had received the free upgrades in the knowledge that they were intended as inducements in exchange for political influence.<sup id="cite_ref-:14_96-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:14-96"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The day after the report was published, Mantashe said that he would not <a href="/wiki/Step-aside_rule" title="Step-aside rule">step aside</a> unless and until "there has been an investigation and a case to answer". He continued to deny wrongdoing and said that he would take the report on <a href="/wiki/Judicial_review_in_South_Africa" title="Judicial review in South Africa">judicial review</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-98" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-98"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-99" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-99"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="ANC_chairmanship">ANC chairmanship</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gwede_Mantashe&amp;action=edit&amp;section=13" title="Edit section: ANC chairmanship"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Mantashe was re-elected to the SACP Central Committee in July 2022,<sup id="cite_ref-100" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-100"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> though, the following month, he lamented the weakness of the Tripartite Alliance after he was heckled while trying to address Cosatu's national congress.<sup id="cite_ref-101" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-101"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-102" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-102"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In December 2022, the ANC's <a href="/wiki/55th_National_Conference_of_the_African_National_Congress" title="55th National Conference of the African National Congress">55th National Conference</a> re-elected him to another five-year term as ANC national chairperson. His re-election was hotly contested by <a href="/wiki/Stan_Mathabatha" title="Stan Mathabatha">Stan Mathabatha</a> and <a href="/wiki/David_Masondo" title="David Masondo">David Masondo</a>, but he won narrowly, receiving 2,062 votes against Mathabatha's 2,018 and Masondo's 282.<sup id="cite_ref-103" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-103"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The Ramaphosa camp again supported his candidacy, reportedly after mooting the idea of endorsing Mathabatha instead in order to ensure the support of Mathabatha's home province, <a href="/wiki/Limpopo" title="Limpopo">Limpopo</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-104" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-104"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-105" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-105"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The media labelled Mantashe as a key member of the so-called "<a href="/wiki/Chris_Hani_District_Municipality" title="Chris Hani District Municipality">Chris Hani</a> cabal" in the ANC – a group close to Ramaphosa, also including <a href="/wiki/Mondli_Gungubele" title="Mondli Gungubele">Mondli Gungubele</a> and Enoch Godongwana, which "fought the rearguard battle" in defending Ramaphosa during the <a href="/wiki/2020_Phala_Phala_Robbery" title="2020 Phala Phala Robbery">Phala Phala scandal</a> and on other occasions.<sup id="cite_ref-106" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-106"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><b><sup id="cite_ref-107" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-107"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></b> The <i><a href="/wiki/The_Africa_Report" title="The Africa Report">Africa Report</a></i> called Mantashe Ramaphosa's "<a href="/wiki/Mob_enforcer" class="mw-redirect" title="Mob enforcer">enforcer</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-108" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-108"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>108<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> However, by mid-2023, observers including <a href="/wiki/Max_du_Preez" title="Max du Preez">Max du Preez</a> suspected that Mantashe might have his own presidential ambitions.<sup id="cite_ref-109" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-109"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gwede_Mantashe&amp;action=edit&amp;section=14" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>He is married to Nolwandle Mantashe, who is a nurse.<sup id="cite_ref-110" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-110"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>110<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> They have four adult children, two sons and two daughters.<sup id="cite_ref-111" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-111"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>111<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 2014, he said of his children, "I usually give them a long lecture which says there is no qualification which is called Mantashe. If you want to survive in life go to school, study and be yourself and not be a Mantashe as a qualification, that should be your surname and that's it."<sup id="cite_ref-112" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-112"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>112<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>His younger sister, politician <a href="/wiki/Tozama_Mantashe" title="Tozama Mantashe">Tozama Mantashe</a>, died of <a href="/wiki/COVID-19" title="COVID-19">COVID-19</a> complications in January 2021.<sup id="cite_ref-113" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-113"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>113<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gwede_Mantashe&amp;action=edit&amp;section=15" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Energy_in_South_Africa" title="Energy in South Africa">Energy in South Africa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_South_Africa" title="Electricity sector in South Africa">Electricity sector in South Africa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_African_National_Congress" title="History of the African National Congress">History of the African National Congress</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gwede_Mantashe&amp;action=edit&amp;section=16" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output 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Zuma</a> (1997–2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kgalema_Motlanthe" title="Kgalema Motlanthe">Kgalema Motlanthe</a> (2007–2012)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cyril_Ramaphosa" title="Cyril Ramaphosa">Cyril Ramaphosa</a> (2012–2017)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Mabuza" title="David Mabuza">David Mabuza</a> (2017–2022)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Mashatile" title="Paul Mashatile">Paul Mashatile</a> (2022–present)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#008000;color:white;">Secretary-General</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sol_Plaatje" title="Sol Plaatje">Sol Plaatje</a> (1912–1915)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Selope_Thema" title="Selope Thema">Selope Thema</a> (1915–1917)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saul_Msane" title="Saul Msane">Saul Msane</a> (1917–1919)</li> <li>Horatio L. Bud-M'belle (1919–1923)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/TD_Mweli_Skota" title="TD Mweli Skota">TD Mweli Skota</a> (1923–1927)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/E._J._Khaile" title="E. J. Khaile">E. J. Khaile</a> (1927–1930)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elijah_Mdolomba" title="Elijah Mdolomba">Elijah Mdolomba</a> (1930–1936)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Calata" title="James Calata">James Calata</a> (1936–1949)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Sisulu" title="Walter Sisulu">Walter Sisulu</a> (1949–1955)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oliver_Tambo" title="Oliver Tambo">Oliver Tambo</a> (1955–1958)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Duma_Nokwe" title="Duma Nokwe">Duma Nokwe</a> (1958–1969)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Baphethuxolo_Nzo" title="Alfred Baphethuxolo Nzo">Alfred Baphethuxolo Nzo</a> (1969–1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cyril_Ramaphosa" title="Cyril Ramaphosa">Cyril Ramaphosa</a> (1991–1997)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kgalema_Motlanthe" title="Kgalema Motlanthe">Kgalema Motlanthe</a> (1997–2007)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Gwede Mantashe</a> (2007–2017)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ace_Magashule" title="Ace Magashule">Ace Magashule</a> (2017–2022)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fikile_Mbalula" title="Fikile Mbalula">Fikile Mbalula</a> (2022–present)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#008000;color:white;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/National_Conference_of_the_African_National_Congress" title="National Conference of the African National Congress"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:white">National Conferences</span></a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Morogoro_Conference" title="Morogoro Conference">Morogoro</a> (1969)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/48th_National_Conference_of_the_African_National_Congress" title="48th National Conference of the African National Congress">48th</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/49th_National_Conference_of_the_African_National_Congress" title="49th National Conference of the African National Congress">49th</a> (1994)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/50th_National_Conference_of_the_African_National_Congress" title="50th National Conference of the African National Congress">50th</a> (1997)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/51st_National_Conference_of_the_African_National_Congress" title="51st National Conference of the African National Congress">51st</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/52nd_National_Conference_of_the_African_National_Congress" title="52nd National Conference of the African National Congress">52nd</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/53rd_National_Conference_of_the_African_National_Congress" title="53rd National Conference of the African National Congress">53rd</a> (2012)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/54th_National_Conference_of_the_African_National_Congress" title="54th National Conference of the African National Congress">54th</a> (2017)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/55th_National_Conference_of_the_African_National_Congress" title="55th National Conference of the African National Congress">55th</a> 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