Gloves are off between the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) leader Collen Malatjie and Gauteng Finance MEC Lebogang Maile.

THE ATTACK

This comes after Malatjie attacked the newly appointed MECs in Gauteng during his address in Bekkersdal in the West Rand in Gauteng a few days ago. Addressing the scores of ANC members, Malatjie told the cheering crowd that there were ANC members who are treated as golden boys who do not campaign for the party, but they are rewarded with MEC positions. It seemed as if Malatjie was referring to MEC for Finance Lebogang Maile, MEC for Education Matome Chiloane and MEC for Infrastructure Development and Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Jacob Mamabolo. "There are golden boys in Gauteng whom no one can touch, it is always obvious that they are going to be deployed as MECs. We don't know who they represent as they don't have a constituency, theirs is to drink expensive whiskies and smoke cigars. How can four of the deployees be from the Joburg region, leaving Sedibeng and West Rand and the Youth League as if they are the stepchildren of the party? These MECs were nowhere to be found during campaigns but drinking champagne in the suites with slay queens during rallies," he said. This angered Maile who took to X on Thursday and said that there are people sent to insult them. "The sugar daddies send their boyfriends to insult us because they are cowards. I dare them to show their faces," he wrote.

HOMOPHOBIC COMMENTS

Gauteng's ANCYL Provincial Convenor Ntsako Mogobe said they are disgusted by Maile's homophobic utterances. "Our view is that this is a very unfortunate tweet by a senior untouchable leader of the ANC in Gauteng. Homophobic views have no place in the congress movement.

We don't know who he is referring to and we don't care. We are seriously worried about the homophobic utterances made by the lifetime leader of the youth league in Gauteng. We have publicly and internally raised both our expectations and our dissatisfaction on the process. We won't allow a suspension and a further delay of youth struggles in the province for any petty political reasons," he said.