On behalf of my friends, Nehanda, Sidumile, Isis, Challo, and Bowba, I say goodbye.

My friends, all citizens of your country, Zimbabwe, are too shocked and too ashamed of what you did to their beloved fatherland to come out and say farewell. So I do it for them.

After 28 years of service and disservice to Zimbabwe, I say thank you for all you did. May you spend your last days in peace, even though you do not deserve it.

Morgan Tsvangirai is coming in.

Zimbabwe will be moving on – away from you - a despot who thinks he alone knows what is right for Zimbabwe -a tyrant who has been killing off the citizens of his country with hunger, disease and disillusionment.

Zimbabweans have been hurting. In one generation your country that used to be the breadbasket of Africa has become its basket case. No country in Africa has ever deteriorated as fast and as deeply as Zimbabwe.

Inflation is running at almost 2000% a year in Zimbabwe. This means that if Challo went to Zimbabwe to marry last year and bought a cartoon of Heineken for $200 Zimbabwean dollars, if he goes back today to visit his in-laws, that cartoon of beer will cost him $4000. If he postpones the visit until next year, it will cost him $80,000 then. That is how bad it is.

For a population of 12 million people, almost two million are HIV positive, meaning that one in every six Zimbabweans is HIV positive. Life expectancy has dropped to less than 38 years for female and about 40 for men. Just ten years ago, life expectancy was over 60 years. The GDP per capital is as low as that of Benin Republic.

Unemployment rate is at 80%. What this means is that four in every five eligible worker is unemployed. The economy shrinks by minus 6.6 % every year, just like the political space. Still, you were spending 30 – 40 % of his budget on defense. Millions of Zimbabweans are immigrating to any country that will take them. The people left in Zimbabwe are so weak and so starved that they can hardly mount any challenge to you. It was an insane situation.

Bad things happen all around Africa but what you did in Zimbabwe was the most unfortunate. While one can make sense of the tragedies of Nigeria, Somalia, Congo or Liberia, the tragedy of Zimbabwe is beyond reason.

Mugabe, you had a chance to be ranked in African history with giants like Senghor, Nyerere, and Mandela. But lo, the greed for power must now compel historians to place you with infamous souls like Mobutu, Bokassa and Banga.

As we say in Shona, Musha wega wega une benzi rawo, every village has its own fool.

Goodbye, Mugabe. Tomorrow is no April fool.