Like the Portuguese publications in Angola, few English
publications have been inconsistent and some like The Mopheme
from Lesotho, the Daily News from Zimbabwe, The Post from Zambia
and PANA have stopped their contributions.
This gap in the contribution of information to the MNEP, from the
Portuguese newspapers, and few other English publications have
disadvantaged at the most the English Publication, which
initially received 5 translated articles daily.
Currently, 8 articles are translated daily, which are fed to the
Portuguese newspapers in the region.
Last year, the Portuguese translated articles reached a large
number of audiences in Angola, through weeklies such as Actual,
AGORA and FOLHA 8 all from Angola that carried our translated
articles covering almost whole pages. This has also been
confirmed by a daily Electronic Publication AFRICAMENTE, and
MediaFax.
Recently it has also been confirmed to the news exchange that
Radio Watana in Mozambique, reads the MISA news on a daily
basis. This radio reaches an estimated 25,000 people in
Mozambique alone.

Other Media Support Activities
As part of the MISA Swaziland Chapter’s collaborating
initiative, the office joined hands with Unicef with the
possibility of a fair coverage of Children issues in the media.
There are possibilities of training opportunities for media
practitioners as well as formation of partnership to produce a
media friendly environment for children.
Apart from the traditional MISA activities above ZIMA also has
other programmes which have been sponsored by funds sourced by
ZIMA from local donors which it is running side by side with the
MISA programmes. These are:
1. Media Literacy seminars.
So far in the period under review two such workshops have been
held in Mazabuka and Monze.
These seminars are primarily meant
to educate villagers o their role in community media. The
seminars have been extended to schools and press clubs are being
formed.
2. Face the media
This has been one of the most successful programmes which has
uplifted the name of ZIMA in Zambia.
This live phone-in Radio
programme was originally aired only on Radio Phoenix but is now
being aired in 10 other community and commercial programmes
around Zambia – These programmes have featured among others

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