Football pundit and retired player Siphiwe Mkhonza says they never experienced any form of racial tensions at Kaizer Chiefs.
Divisions in the Amakhosi camp have said to emerged between players of the black and coloured ethnic groups with cases of ill-discipline also coming to light.
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Players from the black ethnic group have accused the Chiefs management of favouritism and that the coloured players are treated differently.
"Players they feel comfortable clinging with people they can be vulnerable in front of. The reason it comes across as being a problem is because Chiefs have been struggling for results, that's why it has plucked this tension," Mkhonza told Sports Night Amplified with Andile.
"So, all these dynamics they come out now, that yes, maybe the issue now is coloured players, they group themselves there, black players they group themselves there," he further added.
Mkhonza, who played for the Amakhosi from 2004 to 2007 states there was no racial issues that they experienced despite having players from different groups.
Part of it though can be attributed to the club enjoying a lot of success on the field of play as to the current situation where there's been no silverware won since 2015.
"But I can assure now the reason during our time it wasn't seen is because there were results. In our time, we had Rowen (Fernandez), Shaun Bartlett, Fabian McCarthy and goalkeeper Emile Baron," Mkhonza said.
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"And yes, they grouped together but that doesn't mean when they group together during the club's events, but when it's training, work we are together.
"But when it's after the game they do their things own their own, they would go hang out at places like Nandos," added the retired defender.
Mkhonza joined Chiefs from Golden Arrows in the 2004/05 season and won five cups including the title on a dramatic final day in May 2005.
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