Columnist / Mike hamilton
Public warned to be security conscious this Easter
Safeguard Security has warned members of the public to be particularly careful to ensure their homes and offices are secure this Easter, in the wake of an increase in incidences of theft and robbery o...Published: 27 Mar 2018 at 08:26hrs | | by Mike Hamilton
NMBZ achieves $10 million after-tax profit
NMBZ Holdings' profit before taxation for the year ended 31 December 2017 was $13 017 690. Profit after tax was $9 938 826, an increase of 96 percent over last year's after-tax figure of $5 058 166....Published: 22 Mar 2018 at 14:42hrs | | by Mike Hamilton
Health insurance fraud occurs worldwide, says Cimas audit manager
Fraudulent medical aid and health insurance frauds are not a function of the economy, Cimas group internal audit manager Thando Kembo told journalists at a recent ZimSelector Journalists Insurance Men...Published: 12 Jun 2017 at 12:32hrs | | by Mike Hamilton
Cimas CEO urges journalists to dig deeper in their news reports
Cimas Medical Aid Society chief executive Vulindlela Ndlovu has urged journalists to conduct in depth investigative journalism rather than come up with inadequately researched reports that may end up ...Published: 06 Jun 2017 at 17:36hrs | | by Mike Hamilton
NMBZ performing well, AGM told
NMBZ Holdings expects its June 30 half-year performance to be better than last year's and its 2017 performance to surpass that of 2016, barring a significant deterioration in the economy, its chief ex...Published: 24 May 2017 at 15:51hrs | | by Mike Hamilton
American Heart Academy accredits Zimbabwean heart academy
The American Heart Association has accredited the CEARS Training Academy in Harare's Milton Park suburb as one of its training providers, enabling the academy to offer internationally recognised basic...Published: 23 May 2017 at 11:13hrs | | by Mike Hamilton
Violent crime increases, as cash becomes more valuable
There has been a significant increase in crime, particularly violent crime, in recent months, according to Safeguard Security, one of the country's leading security organisations. Many of ...Published: 05 Apr 2017 at 16:32hrs | | by Mike Hamilton
Medical aid societies invite debate on proposed regulatory body
The Association of Healthcare Funders of Zimbabwe (AHFoZ), which represents the country's medical aid societies, is holding a breakfast meeting on Friday (December 9) to discuss the proposed estab...Published: 07 Dec 2016 at 05:10hrs | | by Mike Hamilton
Medical aid societies invite debate on proposed regulatory body
The Association of Healthcare Funders of Zimbabwe (AHFoZ), which represents the country's medical aid societies, is holding a breakfast meeting at Harare's Monomotapa Hotel on Friday (December 9) ...Published: 06 Dec 2016 at 20:53hrs | | by Mike Hamilton
Parirenyatwa calls for joint partnerships to improve health services
Overcoming the country's economic challenges requires the support and contribution of all sectors of the economy, Health and Child Care Minister David Parirenyatwa told the Association of Health Funde...Published: 07 Sep 2016 at 15:32hrs | | by Mike Hamilton
Cimas medical aid division MD retires after 29 years' service
Cimas Medical Aid managing director Roderick Takawira has retired from Cimas after 29 years' service to Cimas Medical Aid Society.He had been managing director of the society's medical aid...Published: 07 Sep 2016 at 08:34hrs | | by Mike Hamilton
NMBZ records half-year before tax profit of $3,6 million
NMBZ Holdings, NMB Bank's holding company, recorded a profit before tax of $3,558 801 for the half-year ended June 30, 2016, resulting in an attributable profit of $2 640 274. The attributable...Published: 24 Aug 2016 at 13:20hrs | | by Mike Hamilton
New beds at The Avenues Clinic offer greater comfort and convenience
The Avenues Clinic has acquired 100 new hospital beds to offer greater comfort and convenience to patients and make patient care easier and less strenuous for nursing staff.More than half ...Published: 10 Aug 2016 at 15:33hrs | 1 | by Mike Hamilton
NMBZ welcomes new shareholder partnership
NMBZ shareholders FMO of the Netherlands and Norfund of Norway have joined forces with Rabobank of the Netherlands to pool their investments in financial institutions across Africa. The new company fo...Published: 04 Aug 2016 at 12:35hrs | | by Mike Hamilton
Test tube baby programme launched in Zimbabwe
An in vitro fertilisation programme has been reintroduced in Zimbabwe at The Avenues Clinic in Harare. The procedure was pioneered at The Avenues Clinic in the 1980s and '90s by obstetrician Dr Tony R...Published: 01 Jun 2016 at 11:45hrs | | by Mike Hamilton
Cimas launches health and wellness plan
Cimas Medial Aid Society on Tuesday evening launched a health and wellness plan, dubbed iGo, that its members on its Private Hospital and MedExec packages can subscribe to. The plan encourages...Published: 26 May 2016 at 11:41hrs | | by Mike Hamilton
NMB Bank secures new correspondent banks for foreign transactions
NMB Bank has entered into a correspondent bank agreement with Ecobank International in France and the Bank of China in Johannesburg, following the decision by Commerzbank in Germany to review their pa...Published: 22 Feb 2016 at 16:26hrs | | by Mike Hamilton
Safeguard Bulawayo comes tops in Megafest Business Awards
Safeguard Bulawayo was presented with the 2015 Business Excellence Award at the Bulawayo and Southern Region Megafest National Business Awards. The company's managing director for the Bulawayo...Published: 13 Nov 2015 at 17:34hrs | 1 | by Mike Hamilton
Dialysis continues undisturbed at Harare Haemodialysis Centre
Dialysis continues undisturbed at Harare Haemodialysis Centre, even when power goesEvery day at least 28 patients with chronic or acute kidney failure visit the Harare Haemodialysis Centre, in...Published: 26 Oct 2015 at 11:33hrs | | by Mike Hamilton
Robbers target those keeping cash at home or office
Crime is increasing. With so many people now out of formal employment, instances of robbery and theft are likely to continue to escalate, a leading security company has warned.A Safeguard Secu...Published: 09 Sep 2015 at 09:27hrs | | by Mike Hamilton
Cimas wins top award from regional publication
PMR Africa, a Southern African regional publication, has awarded Cimas Medical Aid Society its Golden Arrow Award for 2015 for being judged top in Zimbabwe's medical aid fund sector in its leaders and...Published: 07 Sep 2015 at 13:22hrs | | by Mike Hamilton
Security company warns clients to safeguard cash
Leading security company Safeguard Security has issued a security alert to customers warning them to avoid holding large sums of cash at home or at work.This follows an increase in incidents i...Published: 13 Aug 2015 at 16:23hrs | | by Mike Hamilton
LCDZT helps combat violence against disabled girls and women
The Leonard Cheshire Disability Zimbabwe Trust has embarked on a new project aimed at preventing and responding to violence against girls and women with disabilities. The project, called Acces...Published: 24 Jun 2015 at 15:00hrs | | by Chengetai Chinembiri and Mike Hamilton
Cimas puts in place measures to expedite processing of drug claims
Cimas Medical Aid Society has put in place measures to ensure that all drug claims are processed expeditiously, following its decision to suspend its online drug payment facility as a result of a...Published: 14 May 2015 at 17:39hrs | | by Mike Hamilton
LCDZT helps combat violence against disabled girls and women
The Leonard Cheshire Disability Zimbabwe Trust has embarked on a new project aimed at preventing and responding to violence against girls and women with disabilities. The project, called A...Published: 13 May 2015 at 10:39hrs | | by Mike Hamilton
Local production trebles sales of Xpanda security gates
Sales of Xpanda security gates in Zimbabwe have shot up over the last few months, now that the Xpanda T-Max and X-Door are being assembled locally by Safeguard Engineering, the official Zimbabwe agent...Published: 26 Mar 2015 at 13:47hrs | | by Mike Hamilton
CBZ, ABC Holdings scoop top corporate governance awards
CBZ Holdings has won the 2014 trophy for the Best Governed Company on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange, while ABC Holdings was awarded the trophy for the Best Governed Banking Institution. Fin...Published: 17 Nov 2014 at 12:28hrs | | by Mike Hamilton
Cimas issues new cards to all its members in bid to curb fraud
Cimas Medical Aid Society is currently sending out every week about 9 000 new colour coded membership cards with photographs that are designed to reduce the number of fraudulent claims.The...Published: 10 Jul 2014 at 08:59hrs | | by Mike Hamilton
ILO discusses formalising informal economy
Representatives of governments, employers and workers from all over the world, including Zimbabwe, recently met at the International Labour Conference in Geneva for two weeks to come up with propo...Published: 10 Jul 2014 at 08:59hrs | | by Mike Hamilton
ICSAZ introduces new ECG Awards category for banks
The Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators in Zimbabwe has announced there will be a special award category for financial institutions in this year's Excellence in Corporate Governa...Published: 24 Jun 2014 at 13:46hrs | | by Mike Hamilton
Telecel hands over Ford Ranger to OK Grand challenge winner
Telecel Zimbabwe today (Friday) handed over a brand new silver Ford Ranger to Rapheal Sekiwa, who won the Telecel grand prize in the OK Grand Challenge promotion.Mr Sekiwa said he is a lon...Published: 20 Jun 2014 at 15:36hrs | | by Mike Hamilton
Cimas holds lifestyle Expo in Africa Unity Square
Cimas Medical Aid Society is holding an Expo in Harare's Africa Unity Square on Saturday (June 14) to raise awareness of the impact that lifestyle choices have on a person's health and wellbeing....Published: 10 Jun 2014 at 10:42hrs | | by Mike Hamilton
Cimas holds lifestyle Expo in Africa Unity Square
Cimas Medical Aid Society is holding an Expo in Harare's Africa Unity Square on Saturday next week, June 14, to raise awareness of the impact that lifestyle choices have on a person's health and w...Published: 04 Jun 2014 at 13:57hrs | | by Mike Hamilton
Telecash agents and merchants keep increasing
The number of telecash agents and merchants that have signed up with Telecel now stands at more than 3 000, almost double the number that had been registered when telecash was launched at the end...Published: 28 May 2014 at 11:19hrs | | by Mike Hamilton
Cimas issued with air operator's certificate
Cimas Medical Aid Society has been issued with an air operator's certificate by the Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe to allow it to operate air medical services.Cimas board chairman Mo...Published: 14 May 2014 at 15:00hrs | | by Mike Hamilton
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Cimas hands over Optometry Training Unit to UZ
Cimas Medical Aid Society today (Wednesday) handed over to the University of Zimbabwe College of Health Sciences optometry equipment for Zimbabwe's first Optometry Training Unit, which was then offic...Published: 09 Apr 2014 at 14:37hrs | | by Mike Hamilton
Minister Shamu praises Telecel for its competitiveness
Zimbabwe can be proud of the speed with which mobile telecommunications have grown within the country and of its high mobile phone usage penetration rate, Information Communication Technology, Postal...Published: 31 Jan 2014 at 17:48hrs | | by Mike Hamilton
NSSA gives early Christmas gifts to elderly at Bumhudzo
Bumhudzo Old People's Home and Hospital in Chitungwiza on Monday received early Christmas gifts of groceries valued at over $3 000 from the National Social Security Authority's executive management....Published: 03 Dec 2013 at 09:46hrs | | by Mike Hamilton
Telecel introduces Christmas Combo Special
Telecel has introduced a Christmas Combo Special promotion for new customers, embracing 90 minutes free talk time, a 100 percent bonus every time airtime is loaded and Super Voice Bundles, which r...Published: 03 Dec 2013 at 08:33hrs | | by Mike Hamilton
Telecel supports fight against cancer
Telecel Zimbabwe today (Friday) expressed its support for efforts to combat cancer, through promoting greater awareness of the disease, its early diagnosis, research into its causes and effective...Published: 22 Nov 2013 at 11:16hrs | | by Mike Hamilton
Telecel introduces SMS bundles promotion
Telecel Zimbabwe has introduced a new promotion that will allow pre-paid subscribers to purchase short message service (SMS) bundles that cut the cost of sending local text messages considerably....Published: 22 Nov 2013 at 05:43hrs | | by Mike Hamilton
Turnall Holdings judged best governed company on ZSE
Turnall Holdings won the trophy for the Best Governed Company on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange in the inaugural Excellence in Corporate Governance Awards. British American Tobacco came second. Econet Wi...Published: 15 Nov 2013 at 12:21hrs | | by Mike Hamilton
ICSAZ presents first Corporate Governance Awards
All is set for the presentation of the inaugural Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators in Zimbabwe Excellence in Corporate Governance Awards which will be presented for the first t...Published: 11 Nov 2013 at 03:30hrs | | by Mike Hamilton
Front Row wins 2013 ZOL Startup Challenge
Front Row, an up-and-coming web-based business run by Mr Chenjerai Katanda and Ms Eunice Kadiki, won the 2013 Zimbabwe Online Startup Challenge, taking the grand prize of $5 000 cash plus an add...Published: 06 Nov 2013 at 10:27hrs | 1 | by Mike Hamilton
Telecel scoops various excellence awards
Telecel Zimbabwe was last week, for the second year running, presented with the Best Call Centre Award at the Contact Centre Association of Zimbabwe (CCAZ) Customer Service Excellence awards cere...Published: 18 Oct 2013 at 05:10hrs | | by Mike Hamilton
Nano Appliance Centre implements cloud-based business process system
To drive greater efficiency, improved strategic decision-making and faster stock turn-around time across its branches in Zimbabwe, Nano Appliance Centre, a leading supplier of household appliances and...Published: 02 Oct 2013 at 05:43hrs | | by Mike Hamilton
National Foods introduces new varieties of Mahatma rice
National Foods is introducing new varieties of its premium brand of rice, Mahatma rice, which should appeal to those who enjoy a fragrant rice. It is packaging them in re-sealable packets...Published: 02 Oct 2013 at 05:37hrs | | by Mike Hamilton
Corporate governance values should be embedded in corporate DNA
Good corporate governance should be embedded within an organisation's corporate DNA, not be a policy document filed away in a cabinet, Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators in Zimb...Published: 30 Sep 2013 at 05:45hrs | | by Mike Hamilton
Corporate governance code limits multiple directorships
The proposed corporate governance code for Zimbabwe, work on which was recently completed, is expected to limit the number of boards an individual can serve on, DHM Legal Practitioners senior part...Published: 30 Sep 2013 at 05:45hrs | | by Mike Hamilton
John Chikura declared Chartered Secretary of the Year
Deposit Protection Corporation chief executive and two-times Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators in Zimbabwe past president John Mafungei Chikura has been declared the 2012 Chartered...Published: 29 Sep 2013 at 08:17hrs | 2 | by Mike Hamilton
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