Coalition of South African Trade Unions General Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi calls for South Africa to achieve a more just, more sustainable growth by questioning the postulates of neoliberalism: "The fundamental problems of our economy are obvious: our economy is still dominated by a few individuals. Our economy is overwhelmingly dominated by the white population," Vavi said...Cosatu said it identified with the recent UN Development Programme report on sustainable development showing that the government had dramatically improved services and social grants for millions of people and that the poverty rate had fallen from 51 percent to 48 percent. "It exposes the inequalities that stubbornly remain part of our social and political life, including the annual decline of wage share." Vavi was gratified by what he called "government's shift and rethink on privatisation". He said the role of the state in the economy was becoming more visible than in the past, when "some people said the market should dictate everything". The federation would soon be meeting public enterprises minister Alec Erwin to discuss whatever differences existed between Cosatu and the government on privatisation.