EPISODE 7: Lights Out

What this episode covers

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)