ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema has vowed to reclaim the Western Cape - ruled by his nemesis, Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille - by flooding the province with "black" youngsters from the ANC-governed Eastern Cape.
Malema accused Zille of trying to turn the province into a "whites-only" enclave, and added that "we will never, ever reconcile with (Zille)".
"We will never make up with Helen Zille - she is an enemy of the revolution... she's a racist and will remain a racist. She has a racist agenda of making the Western Cape a province for whites only. If she had a way as premier to declare (which) people she wants in the province... for sure by now she would have declared the Western Cape for whites only," said Malema at Luthuli House on Wednesday, after the league's two-day national executive committee (NEC) meeting.
He said the youth league would change the Western Cape's racial complexion.
"As the youth league we are going to encourage many young people, especially those staying in the Eastern Cape, to start applying for houses and sites in the Western Cape, so that we have more blacks and Africans going to Western Cape ... to disappoint (Zille)," he said.
Malema was responding to a question during a press conference that followed a two-week spat between Zille and the youth league after the DA leader - in reaction to criticism of her male-only cabinet - questioned President Jacob Zuma's sexual morality.
The youth league accused Zille of employing "concubines" in her cabinet so that she could "continue sleeping with them".
Malema was conspicuously silent when the league made a number of sexual slurs about Zille.
Zuma and Zille, however, appeared to have made up after a Monday phone call, and the two met in a relaxed mood at the cabinet lekgotla this week.
DA Youth leader Khume Ramulifho rejected Malema's comments as "nonsense".
"Julius is not aware of the population of the Western Cape... that about 60 percent is coloured. How does it become racism every time that the DA says something? Maybe we need to engage Julius on his understanding of racism.
"The DA has been given a mandate to provide service delivery to the people of the Western Cape... and we will not lose our focus," Ramulifho said.
Meanwhile, Malema added that the youth league supported the call by its Western Cape branch for the ANC provincial leadership - under Mcebisi Skwatsha - to be disbanded.
The ANC blames Skwatsha for the loss of the Western Cape, and calls for his departure have become much louder.
"This call by the youth league to disband the leadership in the Western Cape is one of the strategie... on how we are going to reclaim our province. We are working very hard, because the ANC must be in charge of all the provinces," he said.
"We think we have reached a point where we must restructure the whole political arrangement in the Western Cape and bring in the type of intervention to unite the ANC, strengthen it at the lower level," he said.
Malema said the ANC government would not "pull back" on its ambitious pre-election promises - of creating jobs and massive infrastructure developments - despite the country's being in a recession.
"We acknowledge the situation we find ourselves in today. It's because of the economic conditions. We may have to move slowly and not with the anticipated speed... we think the situation will affect the speed. It will not affect our goals," he said.