President Mugabe wore a long sleeved Cuban shirt during the official opening of the African Economic Platform Summit in Mauritius on Monday as it was in line with the prescribed dress code requested by the event organisers
This was said by Presidential spokesperson Mr George Charamba who insisted that the shirt reflected the President’s ideological thinking.“The dress code has been prescribed namely that there should be smart, casual and the President indeed adhered to that dress code,” he said.
“The trouble is that we are so schooled in British dress etiquette that any departure from it amounts to scruffiness and its more interesting that the President was putting on a Cuban shirt.
In their estimates, those critics’ estimates, anything that departs from British sartorial tradition passes for scruffiness. That’s how colonised we are.”