ji Sizzla Repartriates On to Zimbabwe
The… leading Jamaican entertainer Sizzla Kalonji, … has finally put to rest rumours regarding his future and …revealed … that he is in Harare [Zimbabwe] to stay.
Kalonji, whose work permit, we can confirm, has since been issued by the Department of Immigration, is the biggest name in international music to relocate to Zimbabwe. He told the paper he had made up his mind to work from Africa with Zimbabwe being his destiny.
“I am here to stay,” Sizzla emphatically declared to the writer shortly before he flew out of the country on a business trip this past week. “Why not?” he asked rhetorically. “Zimbabwe is home. I have received tremendous welcome.”
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“In Zimbabwe we have already started recording. I am also looking into areas Judgement Yard can invest in for the upliftment of Zimbabwean youths,” Sizzla attested.
Among Sizzla’s investments are a farm he has been allocated by the Government in Chegutu, on which he plans to set up agro-industries for youths under his Jamaican social responsibility banner, Judgement Yard. Kalonji, born Miguel Collins to devout Rastafari parents, is a mechanical engineer by profession.
“The allocation of the farm land does not have any relation to any political party,” said Olimatta Taal in Kingston. “Instead of giving him cash (for his performances at the 21st February Movement celebrations) they gave him land. Although they (the Western media) want to discredit and criminalise him, it is very honourable that he would take land instead of cash,” she added, noting that the land received is for the Rastafarian community.
Sizzla is also understood to have made inquiries into the local textile industry, expressing strong interest in a clothing factory that will manufacture Rastafarian and African regalia and directly create hundreds of opportunities for unemployed youths. Sizzla’s commercial concerns will be run along similar lines as his Jamaican enterprise, Judgement Yard.
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