Zim Fans Call for Cheaper Music

Protesting-
Carl Joshua Ncube.

In comments posted on and verbal feedback received from some of our readers, there have been mixed reactions to the issue of piracy, with some saying that even before we look at the issue of cost, if Zimbabwean musicians cannot be bothered to make their CDs available then they will be pirated.

Another view point is that the average cost of an original CD, US$10.00, is too much, whereas a pirated product can go for as little as US$2.00 on the street. One reader told us: “They should just make their CDs cheaper and we will buy them.”

We visited Carl on First Street on Sunday afternoon (14th March) and found him in a heated discussion about piracy with some colleagues. He told us that some of the reactions he was getting were really shocking.

“There are people who have told me literally that Zimbabwean artists produce crap music and so they could not be bothered even if the industr... ...

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