- Birth nameBonginkosi Dlamini
- Actor, TV host, singer
- Stage name, Zola, means 'thug'. It is also the name of the impoverished area in which he grew up.
- Zola was the most aggressive township. I saw some serious gangsters come out of my neighborhood. I saw blood on the street.
- I took Zola as a stage name to make a point: I may come from Zola but I am a man apart.
- How famous am I in South Africa? I'm more famous than the Cullinan Diamond! And I have no bodyguards. A top celebrity like me can walk into a party and of course I'll sign a few autographs, but there's no trouble. Everybody's happy you're there and wants to love you. Like your piece of bread in the morning, that's how close people feel to me.
- If you rap about having 22-inch wheel rims and a mansion on the hill in South Africa, they'll probably laugh at you and throw cans at you.
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