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Mantashe, mining companies meet over COVID-19 measures
Minister Gwede Mantashe called the meeting with mining houses in response to the announcement by President Cyril Ramaphosa that where people gather, they should not exceed 100.
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Mantashe: Eskom being under DPE complicates its management
Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe said that having Eskom under Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan's department only made it more difficult to manage the power utility as it did not fall under his energy portfolio.
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Govt ready 'to do as many things as possible' to address SA's energy crisis
The Mineral Resources and Energy Department cited the gazetting and implementation of the integrated resource plan as a critical step to ensuring energy security for the mining industry and the rest of the country.
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Minerals Council: Private sector investor should manage new energy company
At the African Mining Indaba on Monday, Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe announced government would be talking to investors to start an energy generation company outside of Eskom.
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Investors to map way forward for SA's second power company - Mantashe
Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe on Monday announced that another energy-generating entity, outside of Eskom, should be established.
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Mantashe: Mining sector should be allowed to generate own power
Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe conceded that South Africa's power crisis was impeding growth.
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Mantashe appoints new Necsa board
This comes a week after the previous board members all handed in their resignations, claiming a lack of support from government and political interference.
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CARTOON: Eskom's New Package
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Mantashe 'regrets' bribery claim, retracts comment
Mantashe met with the South African Editors' Forum on Thursday after the 'Sunday World' said he admitted to paying R70,000 to have a story about him squashed.
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Mantashe has shown criminal behaviour - BLF's Mngxitama
According to the 'Sunday World', Mineral Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe paid two of its reporters R70,000 to make the story disappear.
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Mantashe didn't mean he paid journos to quash sex story - spokesperson
Mineral Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe's spokesperson Moferefere Lekorotsoana said he didn’t really mean it when he told the 'Sunday World' that he had paid the reporters not to publish the article but admitted his utterances were unfortunate.
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Medupi, Kusile underperformance may worsen load shedding - dept
This was a key issue highlighted in the 2019 Integrated Resource Plan being presented to Parliament’s Mineral Resources and Energy portfolio committee.
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Sanef shocked by reports Mantashe paid journos to quash sex scandal story
According to the 'Sunday World', Mineral Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe paid R70,000 to the journalists in exchange for not publishing a story about his alleged relationship with a young woman.
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DA seeks to source power directly from IPPs
The party has now invited Energy Minister Gwede Manatashe to brief its standing committee on finance and economic opportunities and tourism about proceedings relating to that request.
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Mantashe repeats call for review of SA’s fuel price structure
He was delivering the Department of Energy’s budget vote in Parliament on Thursday.
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Mining in SA is not dying, says Mantashe
Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe said investments totalling R45 billion poured into the sector in the past year, which created about 4,000 jobs in a sector that has shed 75,000 jobs in the past five years.
