By Paul Nyathi|MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has claimed he received congratulatory messages from UN secretary general Antonio Guterres as well as the UK and US governments for “winning” the July 30 presidential poll.

Chamisa, who polled 44,3 percent of the vote compared to President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s 50,65 percent, was speaking to South African state broadcaster, SABC Wednesday.

“We are engaging the international community to continue to support the people of Zimbabwe. Most of them have congratulated us for the victory,” he said.

“I have had calls from the secretary general of the United Nations, the British government, from the United States; they have all said, ‘you have done very well’.”