It’s difficult not to feel sorry for Gwede Mantashe, who, as SA’s mineral resources and energy minister, and champion of the mining industry, was fed dud information by his writers.
His speechwriters made him look silly in front of some 400 delegates at a major African mining conference in Australia on Tuesday, feeding him a paragraph lifted verbatim out of an April Fool’s piece earlier this year about a nonsensical mineral called “Hazenile”.A subscription helps you enjoy the best of our business content every day along with benefits such as exclusive Financial Times articles, Morningstar financial data, and digital access to the Sunday Times and Times Select.
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Gwede Mantashe mocked for promoting 'unobtainium' hoax mineral to foreign investorsMineral resources and energy minister Gwede Mantashe is the unfortunate butt of jokes on Thursday after trying to attract investment to South Africa - by peddling an April Fool’s joke.
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