A newly elected KwaZulu-Natal ANC Youth League (ANCYL) provincial executive committee (PEC) member is in hot water after he made disparaging remarks about a female fellow comrade.

In a voice note that went viral, Nhlosi Gwala (also known as Nhloso Zulu) is heard telling the woman she nothing but an HIV/Aids positive prostitute after a fallout over preferred ANCYL PEC candidates at a recent elective conference. 

Both Gwala and the woman, who would not be named to protect her dignity, are from the ANC’s Mzala Nxumalo region (Zululand).

It appears that the voice note was sparked by the woman saying she would not back Gwala for a position in the PEC. 

Despite not enjoying the female comrade’s support, Gwala seemingly notched a spot in the PEC and later mocked her. 

“I am telling you that I won’t be played by a dog with AIDS, with AIDS, unemployed and without matric which is into prostitution in Johannesburg. I cannot be told anything by that thing, something that stinks, that terribly stinks… your friends always tell us that you smell… I don’t know you.

“I don’t know why you were even associating yourself with us, even your friend who you think will make it, that won’t happen. If you didn’t vote for me you think I didn’t make it, it means you were not part of the conference, you were not there at all, I easily made it (to the PEC) sister of some people,” Gwala is heard saying in the voice note. 

Despite sending the voice after the elective conference concluded on Monday this week, Gwala falsely claimed to African Times that it was recorded before it. 

“This happened before the congress, it has nothing to do with politics, it’s personal,” Gwala said when the African Times contacted him for a comment.