Gwede Mantashe now presides over the most important portfolio in the Cabinet — mining and energy. He’s run it like a fiefdom, trying to shut down any real commitment to a green energy transition. We also explore how Mantashe aided and abetted state capture, and the slow but sure creep toward a gangster state, and all-out gang warfare.

Featuring:

Gwede Mantashe, Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy

Ferial Haffajee, Daily Maverick Associate Editor

Heinrich Böhmke, Director of the Specialised Skills Institute of South Africa; former trade unionist

Archive & Music Credits:

SABC News / eNews Channel Africa / France 24 / CGTN

Written, produced & directed by Richard Poplak and Diana Neille

Fact checking and editorial oversight by Sasha Wales-Smith

Editing & sound design by Diana Neille, Bernard Kotze & Tevya Turok Shapiro

Original soundtrack & visual aesthetic by Bernard Kotze

Additional music by Janus van der Merwe

Additional voice work by Ayanda Charlie

Transcriptions by Gloria Cooper

Project Manager: Kathryn Kotze

Marketing lead: Sarah Koopman

Editor-in-Chief: Branko Brkic

Deputy Editor: Jillian Green

Executive Producer: Styli Charalambous

Produced with support from the Friedrich Naumann Foundation

(The content may not necessarily reflect the Foundation’s views or opinions)