"Well, I think that the ANC leaders should call those hotheads and loudmouths to account. I ignore them ? I?m not making an issue with them," she told the SABC on Tuesday.

"Quite frankly I am getting on with my work and they must dance on the sidelines. It is their right to dance on the sidelines, it is my duty to work," the national broadcaster quoted her as saying,

Earlier an MKMVA spokesperson said veterans would march to the Western Cape legislature to demand she apologise to President Jacob Zuma for saying he had put his wives at risk of contracting HIV when he had unprotected sex with an infected woman.

National organiser Fatty Booi said the association had secured authorities' permission for the march, which would start in District Six and make its way through the Cape Town city centre to Zille's office in Wale Street.

The MKMVA had been denied permission for a planned march last week, he said.

"The purpose of our march is quite clear," he said.

"Zille ha[s] undermined the highest office in the country, because whatever she said about President Jacob Zuma, it was okay before the elections, but now that president has been elected into the highest office by the people of South Africa, and they see him as a role model."

Booi said Zille's statement had undermined the Constitution that the veterans had fought for.

He said her appointment of males only to her provincial executive committee also showed disrespect for the constitutional imperative of gender equality.

The marchers would be demanding that she "dismantle that man-dominated cabinet of hers".

Zille had stood for premier because she was an attention-seeker, he said.

"Tomorrow we are coming to give her the attention she wants, but in a very different way. She will never want us at her office again," he said.