Pamela Zulu (Gonyeti)

Parting Ways With Jah Prayzah And Launching Solo Career

Sources say Gonyeti was not happy with the management’s decision to drop her from the team that recently toured United States and Canada. Gonyeti however declined the rumour saying,

Those telling you that I left because I didn’t go to US and Canada are not being truthful. Jah Prayzah told me that I was not to be part of the touring team and I didn’t dispute. When I joined Jah Prayzah I was working on an album and I am pursuing that. I phoned Jah informing him that I was leaving and he wasn’t even concerned, he just told me to return the uniforms, which I am not going to do. The uniforms belong to his band yes but I was wearing it, they are my clothes and anoda kuti ndidzoke nadzo azopa ani.

There were also rumours that Gonyeti had tried to mobilize other band members who had been left behind when Jah Prayzah travelled to the US and Canada to boycott his album launch at the Harare International Conference Centre. She however, denied the allegation,

If it was ever organized, I wasn’t part of it. I don’t know talking to anyone about a stay away.

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Gonyeti started her own band named The Horses. Gonyeti also tried to engage Jah Prayzah’s former manager Fildah Muchabayiwa who initially refused but later agreed to help Gonyeti find her footing on the music scene.^[4]

Sexual Abuse Allegations

At the end of September 2016, after a story published in a local tabloid, Zulu came out alleging that the reason that she chose to leave Jah Prayzah and his band was because of sexually abuse at the hands of the singer. She told of how when the band would travel, though she'd share a room with a female band member, Jah Prayzah would summon her to his room and abuse her sexually.

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