SACP after a failed trip to see the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) in 2004, he is critical of the ANC's approach to Zimbabwe, privatisation, and corruption in government. ANC He took particular issue with the Public Investment Corporation's Telkom share purchase, involving former communications director-general Andile Ngcaba and the former head of the presidency Smuts Ngonyama. COSATU accuses both men of taking advantage of their government posts to access privileged information. In May 2010 the ANC threatened to charge Vavi with "ill-discipline". Vavi argued that under Jacob Zuma's government "We are heading rapidly in the direction of a full-blown predator state in which a powerful corrupt and demagogic elite of political hyenas increasingly controls the state as a vehicle of accumulation and warned of a possible Tunisia style revolution. References External links Zimbabwe: Lessons for South Africa and Southern Africa Speech 1962 births Living people People from Emthanjeni Local Municipality Xhosa people Congress of South African Trade Unions South African trade unionists South African activists