Musician and TV star Zola 7 quits booze as he prepares for showbiz return

South African musician and TV star Bonginkosi Dlamini, popularly known as Zola 7, has reportedly quit booze, as he continues his battle with epilepsy while preparing for his return to show business.

Zola made headlines in 2021 after it emerged that his management team had allegedly begun a crowdfunding campaign to help fund his mounting medical bills.

Zola, who’s known for his goodwill projects for people in poverty-stricken communities, was at that time in desperate need of financial assistance to cover the medical bills for his chronic illness, which had been diagnosed three years prior.

Three years after that appeal, Zimoja reveals Zola has now reportedly quit alcohol, a substance that was worsening his condition.

“His relationship with alcohol wasn’t good, because he overdid it, so it’s good that he’s stopped altogether,” one source said. He used to drink like a fish and this wasn’t good for him, especially with ill health.”

Another source said: “His illness is a serious one and not long ago, he wasn’t well, so that’s part of the reason he decided to stop drinking alcohol. He realised that in the long run, alcohol would hurt his health.”

According to whispers from Zola’s camp, the star was getting “clean” in anticipation of once again scaling the ladder in showbiz.

“He’s determined to get back to the level he was in many years ago within the music business and drinking excessively will deprive him of that. He is so serious about reclaiming his place in showbiz so much so that he smoked the peace pipe with his former label boss Lance Stehr and he’s back at Ghetto Ruff.

“He’s getting his body back because he had lost a lot of weight. He looks better than he did because at some point he couldn’t walk without assistance. Now he’s looking healthier than before and he has people around him that help look after him,” the source said. Telly Africa