The ANC Youth League has called on TV presenter and radio personality Gareth Cliff to apologise for comments he made about Manto Tshabalala-Msimang shortly after her death on Wednesday.

Cliff made the comments on social networking site Twitter.

Gareth Cliff tweeted: "Manto is dead. Good. A selfish and wicked bungler of the lowest order. Rotten attitude and rancid livers - all 3 of them".

He received a number of complaints in response and the ANC Youth League’s Magdalene Moonsamy said it wanted him to say sorry.

“You can’t be so blatantly ignorant about the nature of death,” she said.

Cliff’s publicist Rina Broomberg said the ANCYL has yet to contact him.

“Both Julius and Floyd have got Gareth’s cell number which they extracted from him and they are more than willing to call him. They are on cell phone terms,” she said.

Cliff later tweeted that he had no plans to apologise.