Zwelinzima Vavi

He took a sideswipe at his critics in the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) such as General Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi who wants to ‘co-govern’ with the ANC...

The unions’ candidate against Zuma is Zwelinzima Vavi the outspoken General Secretary of the Congress of South African Trades Unions...

Cosatu support for Zuma’s bid for the ANC presidency was critical to his success at the Polokwane conference in December 2007 but now its General Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi has become one of the President’s sternest critics threatening to bring the government to its knees and lambasting its attempts to control the media (see Blue Lines)...

They have formed a Joint Socialist Commission led by their general secretaries Zwelinzima Vavi and Blade Nzimande and excluding the ANC...

One of his closest political allies the Communications Minister and former army chief General Siphiwe Nyanda was demanding that the party discipline Zwelinzima Vavi General Secretary of the Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) for criticising the ‘lifestyles’ and ‘business interests’ of some leading figures in the governing party...

Cosatu General Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi criticised ‘the over-representation of business people who constitute nearly half of the NPC’ saying the balance was ‘skewed against the trade union and progressive movement’...

Worse than Mbeki We understand that senior ANC leaders such as Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe ANC Treasurer Mathews Phosa and General Secretary Gwede Mantashe along with Zwelinzima Vavi of the Congress of South Africa Trade Unions (Cosatu) and Blade Nzimande of the SA Communist Party (SACP) asked Zuma to reprimand Malema publicly...

More so because we hear the pressure on him to apologise came from some of his most senior allies such as KwaZulu-Natal Premier Zweli Mkhize leader of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) Zwelinzima Vavi and South African Communist Party (SACP) Secretary General Blade Nzimande...

Backed by behind-the-scenes pressure from the Cosatu General Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi and the SACP General Secretary Blade Nzimande Patel has however been struggling to claim control of micro- and macroeconomic policy development hitherto the closely guarded responsibility of the South African Treasury...

and the ANC is in charge ' claimed its General Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi...