The presidential candidate supported by the Optimist Party for the Development of Mozambique (PODEMOS), Venâncio Mondlane, said in a video released on Monday (04) that he had escaped an assassination attempt in South Africa, where he took refuge after the October 9 elections.

"When I was in South Africa, assassins were at my door to kill me," Mondlane said in the Facebook video, quoted by VOAHe added that he was staying in the upmarket Sandton area of Johannesburg.

"I had to jump through the back door, escape through a hairdressing salon... and run with my bags and my family," concluded the politician who, after this incident, left the country, without, however, indicating the date on which the alleged assassination attempt took place.

Contacted by AFPThe South African Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it had no knowledge of Mondlane's presence in the country and that the matter should have been reported to the police.

Venâncio Mondlane continues to reject the results of the October 9 elections, which the National Electoral Commission (CNE) says were won by the candidate of the Frelimo party, in power since 1975.

After his lawyer Elvino Dias and Podemos representative Paulo Guambe were shot dead on October 19 while preparing to contest the results in court, Mondlane said he could be next.

(Photo DR)