MMPZ hitherto monitor social media use

The Media Monitoring Project Zimbabwe (MMPZ) recently revealed that their research capabilities are still limited to monitor media activities over social media as much as they do with broadcast and print media.

MMPZ research team acknowledged that there was still a limitation in resources that inhibits them to conduct credibility research over internet media during a lecture they recently held with media students at Great Zimbabwe University which was based on media credibility in Zimbabwe.

“Our media research is hitherto conduct researches on social media because we still lack the capability to watch over global internet mediums and due to its anonymity and lack of clear ownership we cannot approach internet users for preliminaries before our researches” said MMPZ sub-editor Edson Madondo.

Madondo further noted that it is part of their working endeavor to take such recommendations to that they channel efforts towards checking locally known websites and along those lines they have also published a research based on online mainstream media comments online.

However the question remains....how effective is MMPZ is monitoring media coverage in Zimbabwe yet most media sources are now being disseminated and broadcasted over the internet? There is high internet use in Zimbabwe and the internet has become the most used medium to access news and other media yet the only independent research and monitoring board is incapable of engaging the medium.......... The Voice of Wasu speaks

MMPZ is a local monitoring board that seek to measure the performance of Zimbabwean media if they are adhering to professional ethics, standards and have been conducting prototype lecture around universities in Zimbabwe so as to familiarize media students with the media credibility index of which the 2014 edition is the seventh of its kind.

 

Is Pre-paid water meters necessary... The Voice of Wasu speaks

Mutare residents are complaining after  the City Council has since revealed that they are in a move to introduce pre-paid water meters on their houses.

This after the engineering department, and the council is losing millions in revenue as a result of some 53 percent of its water that is unaccounted for because of leaks...which they have recently resolved and they have only unserviced meters as the remaining cause.

 “The new challenge is that some of the residential meters are no longer working, people tend to abuse their use of water because they know that the council is not billing them.

“I believe it will be manageable. Zesa has managed to do a sterling job with them and I’m sure the same positive results will come out if we decide to introduce them,” said Donald Nyatoti who is the city engineer.

However this has turned up to be a grey sky for Mutare residents who feel that the council has robbed them for long and such a move is not neccesary as much as it was with ZESA.

Zesa is much credible as it supplies the whole city with elctricity and blackouts usually affects almost all of the area and it is a different case with water as high density surbubs such as Dangamvura only recieve water twice in a week.

 "The Dangamvura pipeline is the one that we are still working on. We need high pressure pipes. We are left with about two kilometres to cover,” confirmed Nyatoti.

How can they then install prepaid meters yet other residential areas are not recieving water supplies. Cant they just be fair enough and take their time to complete their ten year old project that has and is still facing challenges of completion.

The Mutare City Council should rather make efforts to reservice the water meters especially in Sakubva and continue to with ther normal billing strategy

....the voice of wasu speaks