By Fortune Tazvida
President Robert Mugabe was pictured in the lipstick section of a New York drug store before a brave shopper confronted him and his swarm of bodyguards with the stinging words ‘Give the power back to the people. Leave office gracefully. Do it for Zimbabwe.’
The 86 year old Zanu PF dictator was browsing through the cosmetics section of a downmarket drug store. Wearing a crisp grey suit, Mugabe was spotted at the lipstick counter in Duane Reade on 52nd Street. The shopper who confronted him said he looked frail under the glaring fluorescent lights.
‘I was looking for a box of plasters when I noticed this well-dressed, straight-backed man eyeing me strangely,’ the man said. Another official in a dark suit walked up to him, nervously holding out a list in his hand and muttering something about such and such not being there.’
‘I could not believe it when I turned and saw, standing in the cosmetics section, none other than Robert Mugabe, the man who has done so much to destroy the economy of his country. He was hunched over a display of lipsticks and blushers, staring intently, as if uncertain about which colours to choose.’
Soon after telling Mugabe to, ‘Give the power back to the people. Leave office gracefully. Do it for Zimbabwe,’ Mugabe lowered his gaze, turned and made his way towards the till. Within seconds Mugabe’s CIO goons, bundled the brave protester outside the shop.
A report in the Daily Mail newspaper says, ‘For more than ten minutes, Mugabe remained trapped inside the store while his angry critic waited outside. Perhaps the president used the time to complete his lipstick purchase or buy some black hair dye and other personal hygiene products stocked at the store.
Unable to find another exit, Mugabe eventually emerged with his bodyguards and scurried into a waiting limousine. It was not a particularly graceful or presidential departure, but perhaps fitting for an international pariah. Mugabe and a delegation of 80 people travelled to the US for the UN General Assembly.
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