Thank you Mr Mugabe

What was most harrowing was the realisation that wherever the women and children were headed to, it was certainly not back home to Zimbabwe. They were going to try to find another hole in some other quiet corner of South Africa to hide in until they are found out and, once more, thrown out like some irritating pests.

Indeed after the xenophobic violence of 2008 that left about 60 African immigrants dead and thousands of others displaced one would have thought that these mothers would have at the next available opportunity quickly bundled their babies onto their backs and headed straight for Beitbridge border post to go back home.

That is what the Mozambicans, Zambians and Malawians did. But the story then was that the Zimbabweans were begging South African and non-government organisation officials helping displaced immigrants to return to their home countries to take them to Zambia, Mozambique, Botswana or anywhere else but not home!

This, indeed, is the legacy of President Robert Mugabe and his Zanu (PF) partys long rule turning a once proud people into a nation of homeless beggars and refugees!

The Zimbabweans evicted from the informal settlement at De Doorns were accused of stealing South African jobs at surrounding commercial farms. Thank you Mr Mugabe for giving us the revolutionary fast-track land reform programme!

And as the depressing images of the immigrants evicted from De Doorns were flashed on television screens across the world, even more Zimbabweans were queuing at foreign embassies in Harare to obtain visas to leave the country because they see nothing for them in Zimbabwe.

What an indictment against the unity government that these citizens would rather go and face the murderous mobs at De Doorns than stay home where Messrs Mugabe, Morgan Tsvangirai and Arthur Mutambara would have us believe that the future looks bright.

Even as it becomes clearer by the day that the power-sharing government is failing to deliver on all the most important fronts rule of law, human rights, press freedom, democracy and you name it we are constantly reminded that the bickering coalition is making progress. Their favourite term is incremental progress.

But the only thing that has incrementally progressed is uncertainty among ordinary citizens and investors as to the future political and economic direction of this country.

With the future uncertain no investment will come Zimbabwes way and that means there will be no jobs created which means more of our young men and women will have to leave the country for foreign lands where mobs wielding machetes, whips, clubs, spears and guns await them. God help us Zimbabweans!