Chamisa grilled on BBC’s HardTalk

MDC-T leader Nelson Chamisa was grilled on BBC’s HardTalk over the party’s internal squabbles, his election messages and his views on the economy.

Chamisa, who took over from founding leader Morgan Tsvangirai soon after his death in February this year, had a tough time defending his vision for a better Zimbabwe under his MDC-T administration, with the BBC news anchor Steven Sackur, describing some of his aspirations as “immature and a sign of excitability.”

He was quizzed on the violence that rocked the MDC-T party during Tsvangirai’s funeral wake, where then vice-president Thokozani Khupe and others were reportedly harassed by alleged party activists.

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