Since this movement began ,only the Zimbo jam which is an on-line publication and The Zimbabwean U.K based weekly paper have covered this issue ,in an interview with the newly appointed Executive Director of Zimbabwe Music Awards(Z.I.MA) ,Carl Joshua Ncube, he moved that;
“the media are letting us down ,we expect such issues to be covered in daily publications and it is the rightful duty of the media to unearth such ill activities that are a danger to the music industry we don’t demand any money from anyone its just posetive move meant to improve this industry”
“to make matters worse we did a press conference at Symphony restaurant where a number of journalists from many media houses were present and I expected many people especially musicians to be aware of this” said Carl.
He also added that ,
“this is so disappointing considering the number of musicians who came in support of this movement, just a few have turned in to sign their names down but I do not blame them so much because its the duty of the media to disseminate such information and let people know what’s going on”.
Andrew Misonza of the group Trinity also highlighted that ,”I am not aware of this anti-piracy campaign ‘why will we abandon it ,its good for us musicians the problem is that it wasn’t communicated to us ,the media should have let us know” ,he said.
Carl who is also a creative director, film maker writer, animator started demonstrating four days ago at the corner of first street and George Silundika where he has vowed to stay from six am to six pm for one week.
However ,the movement was intervened by the death of Sam Mtukudzi who got involved in fatal car accident that also claimed the life of his sound engineer Owen Chimhare four days after the campaign against piracy started.
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