No wonder so many have left the country in the last decade, with an alleged 300k in the UK alone and far more in South Africa.
I can personally attest to this. My family is from Zimbabwe. Every one of my family members has fled Zim, the last being my grandmother who fled to England a year or two ago.

Just to give you some perspective: For a few years calling her was hit or miss because people were stealing the copper telephone wires.