I wondered if his niece’s hopes for a slice of an asset developed over at least thirty years by someone else, had to do with his very tepid recent statements concerning farm invasions – and that is a prospect to make us all shudder.

Hopefully there will be a huge backlash against her in the US as people realise what she’s trying to do in Africa.

It really is time to stop talking about “land redistribution” and the associated racial issues, and to focus on the basic rule-of-law. Even if her claim on the Cremers’ farmhouse is legitimate in terms of some screwed-up self serving version of history and according to the ZANU-PF textbook of commercial law, she still has NO legal right to attempt to force the sitting occupants out without the assistance of the Sheriff. And it is completely horrifying to think that Tsvangirai knows about this and hasn’t prioritised it.

If James Maridadi thinks it’s OK to tell the world that Tsvangirai is too busy right now to attend to this matter, then he really isn’t paying attention himself because this kind of thing instantly extends the suspicion that already attaches to Mugabe, to Tsvangirai himself. And right now all he’s got going for him is his personal credibility. Is he willing to gamble with that? If so, Zimbabwe is really finished.

I and millions of Zimbabweans like me work our proverbials off to get by in life without asking for hand outs. True there are some Zimbos who truly need help but she is I am afraid not one of them. There is no mileage is transferring wealth between a rich white person to a rich black one – that is just colour and zimbos need to know that the politics of colour does not put grain in our silos or job ads in the papers.

Her attempts to justify her actions are truly shameful. Sure we have problems and sure some white Zimbos treat poor people very badly but so do some black Zimbos that is no excuse for an uncoordinated, unplanned land grab!