Businessman Johan Rupert has taken a swipe at the ANC Youth League, likening it to a "mosquito in one's tent" after it claimed his family funded the apartheid regime.
The league put out a statement accusing the Rupert family of being shareholders in Media 24, owners of City Press and Rapport newspapers.
The league said it wanted to know how much farm and agricultural land the Rupert family owned today and how it acquired this.
"The ANCYL is like a mosquito in one's tent," Rupert said from London, without further comment.
The ANCYL claimed that the relationship between Media24 "and right-wing formations, in particular AfriForum", should be explained because AfriForum had been running "STOP MALEMA" adverts in Media24 publications free of charge "for many months now".
Afriforum laughed off the claims yesterday, saying it expected the league to announce that "Elvis Presley is alive and is employed by us".
At the weekend, AfriForum opened a corruption case against league president Julius Malema after City Press reported that Malema had a trust fund taking deposits from businessmen in Limpopo.
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