Ukhozi FM broadcaster, Zimiphi “Zimdollar” Biyela, is tired of being hurt on the road, radio and politics. Speaking on Finally Famous TV, Zimdollar (40) said she regrets rushing to get married when she was young and in Grade 12.
“I was young, my mother scolded me. I can only say it was a fluke because I made a choice,” said Zimdollar who broadcasts the show, Dankie1223 Cafe. She said that there was nothing that attracted her to her husband who had left her for seven years.
“It was just that we were in love. If I scolded at home, I told my lover, he said to cover his ears. I really closed myself off too. I was an idiot.” She said she was happy to be recognized and still carries a phone, a Nokia 3310, when she was in school.
She said she needed someone who could slap him and say “you idiot, don’t you have dreams? Do you know where you are going?”
“The saddest thing is that I was going to go to the temple. when I got married I lost my child, who ate poison. It was releasing poison through his mouth even after he was dead.” She said she had a lot to say about her path but she will hold back because she doesn’t want to talk about someone who can’t answer for himself.
“The lesson I learned is to stop taking things lightly because I was the one who took them lightly, and they came back painfully. It turned out that God is with me.”
Then she went to talk about work, she said that she suffered a lot in the radio station Ukhozi FM while broadcasting the Maskandi program so much so that she almost died as she fainted while broadcasting. She said there are people who think that she made a fool of herself by entering politics. “They don’t know how it helped me to leave the radio because it was between my death and my life. The illness I was in, which stopped the day I quit the radio, and the noise that was there, became silent. It was as if I was going into the water and cooling off in the very hot sun.”
She said when she came back she learned that Ukhozi FM was at war with people she didn’t know she was friends with. Instead of people working as a team because they have a common goal but that’s not the case.
“You see that you are in a war and you start to watch over yourself. And things tell you because I am a twin, I can hear the spirits.” She said that there has been a conflict in the station, she does not know who it is. She said she once got sick and ended up living with pills. She said that even in politics, when she was a member of NFP, she struggled until she left but things followed her. “I would rather die than return to politics.”
