by Tendai Kamusoro

MDC leader, Nelson Chamisa’s desperation for regional and international acceptance reached an all-time low yesterday during an interview with South Africa’s Power 98.7 Radio Station in which he declared that there is no xenophobia in South Africa.

When other regional, continental and international leaders are condemning xenophobia and violence in South Africa and Africa as a whole, Chamisa sees it through his own lenses, claiming that it is just people releasing pressure.

“South Africa is not xenophobic. There is also pressure on every citizen of Africa, there will always be this convenient explanations and justification for ways of alleviating that pressure. I do not believe that we have Africans who are bad, Africans are generally good,” he said.

While being interviewed on SABC News, Chamisa showed his paranoia with the 2018 elections, claiming that there is new evidence against the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) which shows that the elections were rigged.

“New evidence from ZEC shows that election was rigged and this will be put before the AU,” he said responding to a question on what he thought the African Union (AU) should do considering that it endorsed the 2018 Presidential elections.

Analysts who spoke to the publication dismissed Chamisa as someone who will just say anything to gain sympathy and appease the international community in which he is trying to court.

Tinashe Musango said, “Chamisa will say anything and anything to appease everyone even despite blatant human rights violations on the basis of different nationalities just to get in good books with them in his endless fight against the 2018 Presidential results.”