How can Sadomba-Mahari be even on the shortlist for the best web development companies, let alone land the award? That’s the big question of the day and already words like appalling, shocking and illegitimate and phrases like utter rubbish are being used to describe this development.
How can a company that produces this be the best web company in Zimbabwe for the second year running? Seriously?
Granted Sadomba-Mahari is nowhere near good, let alone average. Their work is, as I found out today unashamedly poor. I spoke to Sadomba-Mahari’s “lead developer” Kurai Chikwangwani and got the most predictable response from him on his reaction to landing the award. He said it was a “great opportunity to get more business”. To them the award is recognising their good work and effort.
However, words like indigenous and youth that he threw around gave a sound idea of what this is all about and obviously reduces the value of the awards.
Though he refused to comment directly on Web Entangled’s outrage at being snubbed, Chikwangwani maintained they fully deserved the award and that they make better quality websites – hence the recognition.
I totally agree with Dereck Goto, Founder and Lead Web Developer at Web Entangled for coming out all guns popping claiming Sadomba-Mahari did not deserve to win the award. Totally true but what I do not agree with Dereck is his self aggrandising stance to this whole fuss.
Dereck Goto just barely comes short of saying “Web Entangled should have won the award” knowing fully well they are more deserving candidates which he alludes to like C2 Media, Big Law and Quatrohaus. Why is he crying more than the real bereaved in this whole mess? It’s easy to come up with an argument that Web Entangled are not the best candidate to cry foul because they are not among the top themselves and did not deserve the award either.
I am quite certain that if Web Entangled had received the award, there would likely be the same magnitude of displeasure simply because Web Entangled, like Sadomba-Mahari is simply not the best around.
I suspect Web Entangled were silently hoping to land the award, and to them, winning despite still not being the best would, like Sadomba-Mahari, be a “great opportunity to get more business”. Now, had Web Entangled won the award, would they have climbed the moral high ground to discredit the awards like they are doing now? I don’t think so.
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Are you saying web entnangled shouldnt have raised alarm on the worngdoings of the ministry. he simpy questioned the authenticity of the award. i saw he listed webdev and c2 as the other companys that shld have been considered. you are the people that discourage courageous people. besides by your own admission they are better than sadomba which makes your article confusing. why don’t you focus on the real issue here
agreed the author just trying to blow wind with the hot topic
agree, this was supposed to be posted as a comment on Web Entangled’s article, not as an independent article.
The author is a tea boy at Sadomba-Mahari. 😀
Techzim, please do an MTV Cribs / features (video/audio) of Sadomba-Mahari, C2 Media, Big Law, Quatrohaus and Web Entangled. It will be interesting to realise how these companies operate.
So techzim authors are fighting each other.
I am a solid fan of Techzim but this article makes me question the editorial judgement of our publication. I have just read the article by Web Entangled and nowhere in the article do they declare themselves winners. The issue being discussed is about the fairness of the award not Web Entangled’s prowess. Let’s stick to the discussion so we can get better judges next time.
I would have been a bit more forgiving had it come in the comments section of their article but to have one of your main writters post such a post isnt the way to do it. infact you are doing all of us a disservice by discouraging future whistleblower
That wasnt whistleblowing.
Web Entangled just drew attention to itself by criticising Sadomba’s win. You know what they say about throwing stones whilst living in a glass house. Even though everyone(except Sadomba and its cheerleaders) generally agree that Sadomba doesnt deserve the win.
Web Entangled expected to win as they were a nominee. It was clearly mentioned that he was nominated in that category. He said “short-changed”, spoke that it “destroyed our moral fabric”, strong words that betray bias. A win was definitely expected.
Techzim you have lost the plot, delete this nonsense. Why not create a poll on this site and have people take a vote, the you can write an article and say though Sadomba-Mahari won the people agree or disagree instead of this emotional publication by this writer.
Tendai, i dont know what your credentials are as a journalist or ICT commentator are…. but you seriously need to review your logic if you are going to be posting all this nonsense publically. Dereck did not once suggest that he should have scooped the award…he used examples of his business and well as other “leading” web developers for end users to quantify the quality of SM’s work against the existing local competition. why are you being so fatuous in your conclusions…? this is not an episode of scooby doo!
Ha ha- Kalpesh!
Let me start off by addressing a certain comment I saw here: it’s natural for writers to attack each other on the same platform – ZDNet is a case in point. For those who are not in the know, I’m alluding to the fact that Derek Goto wrote an article crying foul over Sadomba-Mahari’s scooping the Best ICT Web Developer Company / Individual 2013 award and now Tendai Mupaso is hitting back at Derek in this article accusing him of “hoping to have landed the award.”
That being said Derek was justified in his outrage. Of course as a nominee he had hoped to win! The fact that he’s the only person to publicly complain does not mean we should condemn him. In his article, Derek listed a number of companies which he described as worthy of deserving the award in question. Why then should we discredit him if he included his own company in the list. For the record he did not in any way say “My company is the best so it should have won” rather it was more like “My company is amongst the best that deserved to win…” I see no crime in that!
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As an individual I have done way much more better sites than that one.
Techzim you should know that you cater to a broad range of readership. You should always endavour to write well-thought-out and meaningful articles.
vakomana vakomanaka ngative serious. Ah ndochiichocho. Tsvina tsvina hatidi vakomana.
I have had the time to go through most of Tendai Mupaso’s articles and have come to expect nothing more that shallow articles. He is the same journalist that did a carbon copy of the Karbonn Titanium article http://www.techzim.co.zw/2013/12/smartphone-review-karbonn-titanium-s5-bold-competitive-329/ with this http://thegadgetsquare.com/2248/karbonn-s5-titanium-review/ Now I dont know about his qualifications but something tells me there is something amiss.
Just an observation
a la http://www.itwebafrica.com/tag/Tafadzwa%20Muguti/#!
Another thing to consider is what the definition the ministry is using for Web Developer, maybe they do not just mean Website Developer but someone who develops services on the web, what of companies that are working on online payments, software as a service etc. It may not be a traditional website but much more advanced web development. The true deserving winner is probably someone who has not even been mentioned in any of the articles as this focuses on web site development.