 Chisiza briefly returned to Nyasaland, before going to Southern Rhodesia in 1953, where he worked as a clerk interpreter and translator for the Indian High Commission in Salisbury (now Harare).One of his responsibilities there was the publication of a regular information bulletin.In Salisbury, Chisiza lived in the Matapi Hostel, and joined the Mashonaland branch of the Nyasaland African Congress.