Just over twenty years ago, South Africans were living like rats, without permanent and clear
residences, ostensibly due to the apartheid policies and harshness associated with it which were at its highest level. Because of being discriminated in their own country by the racist policies, many were forced to leave South Africa and settle in foreign African countries like Zimbabwe and Tanzania. In Tanzania, the government of Mwl. Julius Nyerere, the first president of Tanzania set up a whole region known as "Morogoro" to host the fleeing South Africans. How benevolent and considerate this individual was! Let alone accepting them as refugees, but setting aside a region which acted as a home-away from-home, living concurrently with the indigineous Tanzanians. Today, Zimbabweans are experiencing ephemeral political and economic strife which compels them to seek asylum in the Southern part of Africa. Instead of helping their brethren, they are killing them with fires, machettes and guns. Africans against Africans! For what reasons? Taking over jobs, houses and local women. Wither Africa?

As a Zimbabwean living in Harare, I feel that the South African govenment must get to the root of the problem. The problem of worsening poverty in the townships, slow development and increasing unemployment (even in the midst of the so called 2010 boom) must be seen to be the governments top priority. I acknowledge that the government has been building houses and working on infrastructure, but the Mbeki government has always been perceived by many, as one that panders to the needs of the middle class. Whether this true or not is irelevant if this perception is in the minds of the poor they will react in the same way to the "competitors" for their jobs, their housing and the better life that they want so badly.