“It’s like Invasion of the Body Snatchers,” one reporter remarked after mineral resources & energy minister Gwede Mantashe’s press briefing at the 26th Investing in African Mining Indaba on Monday.

Mantashe certainly looked and sounded the same, but the free-marketeering rhetoric from the former trade unionist was new...

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