Soul Jah Love Was Driven To The Mortuary In A Car Seat Like A Live Human Being – Manager Speaks
The last manager of the late Zimdancehall icon, Soul Jah Love, has revealed that they had trouble accepting that the chanter had indeed died.
Kudzi “Junky” Ruwisi told a local publication that at one point, they placed his lifeless body in a car seat just like a normal person in the hope that he was still alive.
Ruwisi told The Herald;
I went to Mbuya Dorcas Hospital after hearing that he had been admitted. When I got there, the doctors, despite knowing me since I always took him there previously, refused to let me in. They insisted I should call his brother first.
While calling the brother, I went outside and discovered that a few colleagues in the music industry were in the car park, already crying. They are the ones who told me that Jah Love was no more. But I refused to believe it.
I remember seeing cars representing funeral homes arriving, nearly every funeral home I know was represented, with the hospital security battling to contain the situation because more people were also arriving as rumours of his death spread.
His brother, who had just arrived, turned down all funeral homes and decided to carry the remains of Sauro with his car to the mortuary.
In fact, many people don’t know this, but we actually placed his body on a car seat, just like a normal person, because we had hope that he was still alive. We drove his body to Fidelity Funeral Home and when we arrived, we told the mortuary staff to not rush in putting it in the mortuary.
The truth is, we did not believe that he was dead, because due to diabetes, many times he went unconscious and later woke up. But hours later we gave up, he was indeed no more.
Soul Jah Love, born Saul Musaka, died on 16 February 2021 after a long battle with diabetes.
