Mugabe’s suits made at a backyard in Harare

Mugabe’s suits made at a backyard in Harare: Today’s picture in India showing heads of state in Indian attire in solidarity except Mugabe in dark suit for the India Africa Summit, put to rest my long investigations into why Mugabe is obsessed with shopping in London and dark suits. Mugabe has his very much dark side of live and that mighty have been as a result of a serious abuse which we are yet to unearth. This picture of Mugabe at odds with developing world and diplomatic solidarity is an embarrassment to Zimbabweans. How the ZANU PF government failed to get the communique of dress attire for the photo shoot is beyond comprehension. Here is a president who is not proud of his African roots, wears a suit on rural meetings, weddings, funerals, weekends, in the garden and maybe Grace might confirm that his truly wears the same in dreams.

Since he was banned from Shopping in London, I can today reveal his dark secret, that Mugabe’s suits are being hand made by an Asian businessmen Khalil Parbhoo aka ‘Solly’ at Liberty Tailors in the ding area of Harare. According to classified sources Mugabe like his suits dark with vents on each side. One day he fumed when the tailor made a double breasted suit in line with modern fashion trend. He is particular about the type of suit. Solly sometimes goes to State House to measure Mugabe, however most of the time it’s the same measurement since Mugabe’s body has not changed for a long time. Once the suits are made, Mugabe sent his security officers to collect, I can reveal.

Despite Mugabe hating the West, he remain one president in Africa that loves Western apparel, etiquette and the language. Since Mugabe dumped the Chinese suits in 1980 and dinned with the Queen, and got knighted, his suits have always been tailor made in London. Despite his rhetoric; hatred to the West, Mugabe is a West spoiled boy, who can’t do without Western etiquette. His a strange man, strange than fiction, he is probably a dead man walking.

Elliot Pfebve is a Researcher and Lecturer; and Head of MDC Mission to EU.