 Although he has been criticised for standing by Mbeki's "soft and non-confrontational" approach towards the Zimbabwean crisis, he was quite critical of Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front and Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change.Furthermore, his criticisms of emerging black capitalists and that Black Economic Empowerment was that it should be "restricted to one deal [per individual] and that what was needed was genuine economic transformation that benefitted the Black masses rather than creating an elite club of Black millionaires" has earned him the "resentment of budding Black capitalists.