Jah Prayzah Now Hot Political Potato ‘Kutonga Kwaro’

It therefore did not come as a surprise that the album launch of his latest album Kutonga Kwaro was shunned by politicians who had in the past fallen over each other to associate with the Uzumba-born artiste.

For example, on March 27, 2013 at the defunct Jazz 105, top Zanu PF officials flooded Jah Prayzah’s launch of the album Tsviriyo.

These included among others then Youth and Indigenisation minister Saviour Kasukuwere, Uzumba-Maramba-Pfungwe legislator Simbaneuta Mudarikwa, former Zanu-PF politburo member Tendai Savanhu and the flamboyant businessman and former Chinhoyi legislator Philip Chiyangwa.

Savanhu went on to pledge musical instruments while Kasukuwere promised to give Jah Prayzah’s band an undisclosed present.

Jah Prayzah Now Hot Political Potato ‘Kutonga Kwaro’

But it was Chiyangwa who stole the limelight after he pledged to buy a copy of the music star’s album for $12 000.

He also gave the musician a residential stand.
The Kumbumura Mhute and Jerusarema album launches in 2014 and 2015 respectively also attracted a horde of politicians from the ruling Zanu PF party.

The Jerusarema album launch was officiated by none other Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa himself.

By his own admission, Mnangagwa had never attended an album launch before but he couldn’t, probably, turn down the chance to capitalise on Jah Prayzah’s popularity.

“I had never been at the concert before but . . . I am proud of our artistes,” said Mnangagwa then.

At the same event, Chiyangwa bought Jah Prayzah’s CD for $27 000.

Since he released the song Mdhara Vachauya last year, Jah Prayzah has been repeatedly mired in Zanu PF’s succession battles with some in the ruling party claiming that the song was composed to prop up Mnangagwa as he bids to take over from President Robert Mugabe.

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