 Viomak's struggles has been likened to opposition activists and journalists, who are being harassed and arrested under laws such as POSA.Viomak uses her her artistic name in order to protect relatives; Violet or Viola Makoni and Violet or Viola Makunike have been suggested by the ruling party Zanupf's spies after Viomak was placed on a high profile hit and death list of opposition voices among independent journalists who have since run away from Zimbabwe have faced death threats for despising zanu pf

Viomak fled Zimbabwe for Halifax, Nova Scotia, where she and her husband lived for five years before returning secretly to Zimbabwe in August 2006 via Botswana.She lived in hiding near Harare for four months, concealing her appearance to record two albums at a studio in the city, and then moved to England, where she has been granted political asylum; her husband and two children joined her in Birmingham in 2007.