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Slizer, ZTA partner to market Zim tourism

Slizer, ZTA partner to market Zim tourism
Wednesday, 20 July 2011 02:00
By Ruth Butaumocho

Motswana dancer and singer Naledi Kaisara known as Slizer in music seems to have fallen in love with Zimbabwe! She returns to the country next month to release a CD and DVD on Zimbabwe and its tourist sites.

In an interview from her base in Botswana, over the weekend, Slizer who was recently in Zimbabwe for live shows with sungura ace Alick Macheso, said she would be returning to Zimbabwe to release an album.

"During my short stay in Zimbabwe, I had an opportunity to meet with members of the tourism board (Zimbabwe Tourism Authority) where we expressed an interest to work on a project on Zimbabwe.
"As soon as I get back, I will immediately visit all the tourist destinations in Zimbabwe, before I can work on the project," she said.

Slizer marvelled at some of the tourist destinations she has been to, and described Zimbabwe as a "beautiful country with wonderful people".
"I have been to Zimbabwe and I just love the beauty of the country and its people," she gushed during a telephone interview.
ZTA head of public relations events and protocol Sugar Chagonda said the authority would be working with the Motswana singer following her proposal, which the authority has since endorsed.

"When she (Slizer) was in the country, she paid us a courtesy call and proposed to market Zimbabwe through music. We were excited with her idea and we have since endorsed the project and we are fully behind it, given the mandate that we have, of marketing Zimbabwe as the most preferred tourist destination," he said.

Although he could not give the definite dates, when the project would resume, he said the authority was waiting for Slizer to lay out her itinerary.
Chagonda, however, urged local musicians to market Zimbabwe through music.

"Music has proven to be a marketing vehicle. Our local musicians should also take the initiative and inform the outside world how beautiful our country is through music," he said.
The raunchy dancer has not hidden her intimate relationship with Zimbabwe from the first day she set her feet on local soil in December, 2010.
On her last visit, she had the audience eating out from her palm, when she rocked the shows with her pulsating raunchy dances.

Labels: TOURISM

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