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Primary School head charged with procurement violations
Mezah Mazambiri, headmaster of Glaudina Council Primary School, appeared before Harare magistrate Mrs. Marehwanazvo Gofa on charges of criminal abuse of office linked to alleged violations of the Mini...Published: 13 Jul 2025 at 11:15hrs | 44 | by Staff reporter
122-year-old Zimbabwean finally gets funeral cover
South Africa-based Zimbabwean funeral services company Zororo-Phumulani has stepped in to support 122-year-old uMkhulu Anulois Banda after the centenarian's application for funeral cover was rejected ...Published: 14 May 2025 at 12:34hrs | 1773 | by Staff reporter
Too old to die? 122-year-old Sekuru Banda denied funeral cover due to age
He has lived through the colonial era, both World Wars, and multiple global pandemics - yet for 122-year-old Sekuru Anuloisa Banda, a peaceful farewell remains an uncertain privilege.Yes, you ...Published: 09 May 2025 at 10:56hrs | 1092 | by Staff reporter
NGOs social entrepreneurship in the age of development aid disruption
Social Entrepreneurship in the Age of Disruption of Traditional Development is and other actions are urgent as alternatives to reduce the carnage that is faced by non-state actors after the dismantlin...Published: 23 Feb 2025 at 17:44hrs | 344 | by Michael Ndiweni
Yimi uMtshovi wabantu uRicky, a cycle courier
Hello Bulawayo My City! Yimi uMtshovi wabantu uRicky, a cycle courier, and I'm here to make your life easier. I offer convenient courier services, available Monday to Friday, 8am to 5pm. For just $5, ...Published: 13 Sep 2024 at 09:44hrs | 328 | by Umvotsho
BPRA launches funeral cover for residents
The Bulawayo Progressive Residents Association (BPRA) has elected a new board and launched a low-cost funeral cover, Uhlelo Lwezakhamizi Funeral Cover, aimed at underprivileged members of society. Thi...Published: 09 Jul 2024 at 05:51hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Zipra fighter receives mysterious US$400 windfall
A former Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) liberation war veteran, Godfrey Mlalazi, who recently raised concerns about a prominent insurance company offering him a meager ZiG200 and US$50 a...Published: 20 May 2024 at 07:53hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Zipra war vet gets ZiG200 funeral payout
A former Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) veteran based in Bulawayo, who participated in the liberation struggle, has accused a prominent insurance broker of offering inadequate funeral pa...Published: 19 May 2024 at 12:38hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mukuru distributes millions in aid to vulnerable Africans
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, March 19, 2024 - Next-generation financial services platform, Mukuru (www.Mukuru.com), has successfully distributed millions in aid to disadvantaged recipients in Africa throu...Published: 19 Mar 2024 at 12:41hrs | 168 | by APO
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Mnangagwa says Chiefs' welfare top priority
The Government is committed to improving the conditions of service of traditional leaders who are not only custodians of the country's moral and cultural fabric, but also accelerators of economic deve...Published: 01 Mar 2024 at 19:02hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Living a lie
IN our NewsDay edition yesterday, we carried two stories titled: Low civil servants wages a time bomb and Let the good time roll, let's enjoy: Mthuli.The two stories clearly highlighted the gl...Published: 20 Sep 2023 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga punishing Zimbabwe's health workers?
VICE President Constantino Chiwenga has been accused by some disgruntled nurses of blocking salary and allowance increments in the health sector as punishment for past strikes and demonstrations....Published: 26 Apr 2023 at 19:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe teachers earn ZW$39 636 (US$33)
THE impoverishment of professionals by the government has reached heart-rending levels, but those who dare complain are often victimised, leaving public sector workers feeling helpless in the face of ...Published: 25 Mar 2023 at 11:34hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Suspended bus operators fire reckless drivers
Suspended bus companies Zebra Kiss and Rimbi Tours have apologised and further revealed they were firing drivers who got involved in a fierce road race along the Harare-Nyamapanda road earlier in the ...Published: 20 Jan 2023 at 22:25hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
4 Zimbabweans shot dead by SA police
FOUR Zimbabweans were shot dead in a shootout with South African police after they tried to rob a shop at Stoneridge Mall in Johannesburg. One of the armed robbers killed is 27-year-old Everjo...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 06:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man fakes son's death
A Gokwe man recently stumbled upon his own death certificate leading to a police report and the arrest, conviction and fining of his father who had made the false death report in 2019 to claim a funer...Published: 17 Mar 2022 at 05:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man finds own death certificate
WHEN a Gokwe man recently stumbled upon his own death certificate it led to police reports, arrest, conviction and fining of his father who had made the false death report in 2019 to claim a funeral b...Published: 15 Mar 2022 at 15:51hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Botswana chieftainess fires last protest shot as British leaders scrap hunting trophies imports ban
After months of passionate appeals to the British Government to discontinue its plans to introduce the Trophy Hunting Imports Ban Bill, the protest voice of a Botswana Chieftainess who represents a wi...Published: 15 Mar 2022 at 13:27hrs | 116 | by Emmanuel Koro
Zesa workers go on strike claiming 'incapacitation'
Zimbabwe's embattled power utility ZESA faces a crippling strike by workers demanding better pay.The Zimbabwe Energy Workers Union (ZEWU) says ZESA has "mistaken our patience for a weakness", ...Published: 15 Feb 2022 at 19:09hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Nyaradzo effects 300% premium increases
Covid-19 has decimated economies leaving people with little or no money to spend on basic essentials like food, health and funeral insurance among others.With prolonged lockdowns in many count...Published: 01 Feb 2022 at 05:27hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa scholarship trust gets bus
President Mnangagwa's ED-UNZA (University of Zambia) Scholarship Trust has received a donation of a 40-seater bus together with funeral cover for all the students, courtesy of leading local firms - Do...Published: 17 Dec 2021 at 23:40hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
EcoSure extends cover to millions, boosts national insurance penetration
HARARE - EcoSure, the micro-insurance product from Econet Life, has played a significant role in raising the country's insurance penetration by over 200%, from as low as 5% to over 16%.The inn...Published: 29 Sep 2021 at 09:08hrs | 1 | by Agencies
All Zanu-PF provinces endorse Mnangagwa
ALL Zanu-PF provinces have endorsed President Mnangagwa as the ruling party's presidential candidate in 2023 elections in a major show of confidence in his leadership following the advent of the New D...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 07:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Funeral parlours demand payment for Covid-19 tests
Some funeral parlours in Bulawayo are reportedly demanding payment to conduct Covid-19 tests on people who die at home.But health officials say that is not the mandate of the funeral service p...Published: 03 Aug 2021 at 20:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Maisha Health Fund launches convenient, phone-based medical aid registration via USSD
Cassava Smartech Zimbabwe's health insurance unit, Maisha Health Fund, has launched an innovative and convenient way to register for medical aid cover through the mobile phone. The service, wh...Published: 20 Jul 2021 at 17:33hrs | 7 | by Agencies
Cassava Smartech partners with the Anglican Church
- Members set to benefit from insurance cover, farming technology & logistics support MUTARE - Cassava Smartech Zimbabwe on Friday signed a M...Published: 22 May 2021 at 08:00hrs | 1 | by Agencies
Chitungwiza workers give strike notice
THE Chitungwiza Municipal Workers Union (CMWU) has given the council until May 16 to address their poor working conditions or face a crippling strike.In a letter, addressed to acting town cler...Published: 05 May 2021 at 07:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
EcoSure beefs up its services, rolls out tents and ablutions as add-ons
HARARE - EcoSure, Cassava Smartech Zimbabwe's micro-insurance business, has included tents and mobile ablution facilities to its funeral policy holders as the company beefs up its mobile insurance pac...Published: 28 Mar 2021 at 13:29hrs | 1 | by Agencies
New Maisha Health product enables patients to consult doctors remotely
Maisha Health, Cassava Smartech Zimbabwe's health insurance unit, has rolled out a digital platform that allows patients to consult doctors remotely.The Maisha Telemedicine platform will colle...Published: 23 Feb 2021 at 17:08hrs | 2 | by Agencies
Zimbabweans now opting for traditional remedies
AS Zimbabwe continues to record an increase in Covid-19 cases and deaths, many people, especially those in the country's informal sector, are contemplating downgrading on funeral and medical aid cover...Published: 29 Jan 2021 at 06:46hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
'You like us dead' unions tell government over new US$500 funeral cover
Public sector workers accused the government of being "insensitive" on Tuesday after a new US$500 funeral cover was announced.Information ministry spokesman Ndavaningi Mangwana announced the n...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 21:59hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zimnat partners Access Finance to provide bureaux de change
Zimnat customers can now obtain bureau de change services at selected Zimnat branches across the country, following the establishment of a partnership between Zimnat General Insurance and Access Finan...Published: 02 Sep 2019 at 16:08hrs | 1 | by Agencies
Zimnat social media followers win trip to Capetown marathon
Zimnat today announced the social media winners of an all-expenses paid trip to Capetown to participate in the Sanlam Marathon on September 15 and briefed the winners, Tariro Makanga and Lilian Choruw...Published: 28 Aug 2019 at 14:42hrs | 6 | by Agencies
Zimnat offers expenses paid participation in Capetown marathon
Zimnat is offering its social media followers an opportunity to win an all-expenses paid trip to Capetown to participate in the annual Sanlam Marathon next month.The marathon, which takes plac...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 07:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimnat launches another innovative billboard campaign
Motorists driving towards Harare's city centre along Borrowdale Road are likely to be surprised to see just before the racecourse what appears to be boulders falling from a container on a billboard an...Published: 15 Jul 2019 at 18:07hrs | 2 | by Agencies
8 bogus funeral assurers in Bulawayo
BOGUS funeral assurers are on the prowl across the country with about eight entities operating without required licensing in Bulawayo alone, the Insurance and Pensions Commission (IPEC) has said....Published: 21 May 2019 at 06:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Coffin prices skyrocket
THE prices of coffins has gone up by more than 100 percent in recent months forcing dozens whose relatives are dying without funeral covers to turn to small entrepreneurs whose prices are still afford...Published: 19 May 2019 at 09:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
NetOne dumps Dembare
THERE was a time when the domestic Premier Soccer League almost choked to death because of lack of funding but things are beginning to turn for the better. Corporates are warming up to the dom...Published: 30 Mar 2019 at 17:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
VP Chiwenga's Prophet causes stir over ressurecting a dead man
South African Pastor Alph Lukau has caught controversy after staging a resurrection miracle on Sunday. Lukau hogged the limelight in December when he prophesied that Vice President Constantino...Published: 25 Feb 2019 at 08:51hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Joy, anger as trapped miners are rescued
A visibly shaken Thinkmore Madimutse was the first survivor to be retrieved from a flooded shaft at Silver Moon mine yesterday four days after disaster struck in the gold-rich Battlefields area....Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 08:11hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Man fakes father's death
A Masvingo man and his two accomplices have been sentenced to 420 hours of unpaid work each by a magistrates court for trying to swindle Econet of $2 000 via the its EcoSure Funeral Cover, through a f...Published: 12 Nov 2018 at 05:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
$400k golden handshake for Gweru town clerk
FORMER Gweru town clerk Daniel Matau and the city council have reached an agreement to mutually part ways in a development that will see him walk away with about $400 000 as severance package among ot...Published: 15 Oct 2018 at 06:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Matemadanda reacts angrily to Chamisa attack
MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa drew fierce reaction from an angry Defence and War Veterans deputy minister Victor Matemadanda after the youthful politician accused him of enjoying State feather...Published: 05 Oct 2018 at 06:31hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimnat launches innovative billboard campaign
Zimnat has launched an innovative advertising campaign to let people know some of the ways in which it can make their life better, through the customer friendly insurance and finance services it offer...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 13:09hrs | 1 | by Agencies
Medical aid firm targets informal sector
FAST-growing Gweru-based medical aid company, Zimbabwe General Medical Aid Fund (ZG Medical) has begun tapping into the country's vast jobless market, which is usually neglected by most insurance and ...Published: 05 Jul 2018 at 06:51hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe owes peace to the military'
ZANU-PF political commissar Engelbert Rugeje, who is also Doves Funeral service board chair, says the country owes its peace to the military.Handing over a funeral hearse to the Zimbabwe Natio...Published: 22 May 2018 at 15:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
'EcoSure to eclipse EcoCash success'
ECONET'S Cassava Fintech group chief executive officer Darlington Mandivenga says its mobile insurance service, EcoSure, will in time eclipse EcoCash's current success.Last week, the Postal an...Published: 21 Mar 2018 at 05:28hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
ZRP boss fakes hubby's death
The officer-in-charge of Highfield Police Station, Eyelet Gutu, was hauled before the courts after reportedly faking her husband's death in a bid to illegally benefit from his funeral cover.Gu...Published: 15 Jan 2018 at 15:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF has no salary arrears, says Chombo
The ruling Zanu-PF has been able to pay its employees' salaries on time despite the economic challenges bedevilling the country. Zanu-PF national secretary for Administration, who oversees staff welfa...Published: 29 Sep 2017 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
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