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Mafume raises concerns over council pension funds

Harare Mayor Jacob Mafume has raised serious concerns over the management and allocation of the council's pension funds, questioning their effectiveness in supporting local businesses and infrastructure development.Speaking at a full counc…

Published: 02 Oct 2025 at 12:36hrs | | by Staff reporter

NHS hit by pension scandal

Zimbabwe's state-controlled National Handling Services (NHS) is facing a serious corporate governance and financial scandal, with reports of unremitted pension funds totaling nearly US$1 million and questionable travel and entertainment al…

Published: 17 Aug 2025 at 09:59hrs | | by Staff rporter

Zimbabwe Govt Pension Fund acquires Monomotapa Hotel

Zimbabwe's largest hospitality group, African Sun Limited (ASL), has agreed to sell the historic Monomotapa Crowne Plaza Hotel and its adjacent car park to the Public Service Pension Fund in a deal valued at US$18 million. The transaction,…

Published: 03 Aug 2025 at 12:18hrs | | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe's pension sector faces a mounting crisis

Zimbabwe's pension sector faces a mounting crisis as contribution arrears soar to a staggering US$93 million, prompting the Insurance and Pensions Commission (IPEC) to announce an aggressive enforcement crackdown against delinquent employe…

Published: 03 Jul 2025 at 12:27hrs | | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe govt to clear pre-2009 pensions backlog

The Zimbabwean Government is finalizing amendments to Statutory Instrument (SI) 162 of 2023 to fast-track compensation payments to private sector pensioners who lost significant value in their savings due to the devastating hyperinflation …

Published: 01 Jul 2025 at 08:23hrs | 471 | by Staff reporter

Outdated regulations stifling development in Zimbabwe

Councils across Zimbabwe must urgently modernize and adopt private sector-friendly reforms to eliminate bottlenecks in local government systems that threaten the country's ambitious economic transformation agenda, Deputy Minister of Local …

Published: 28 Jun 2025 at 15:03hrs | 69 | by Staff reporter

Former Wenela miners call for Mnangagwa intervention

Former Zimbabwean miners who worked in South African mines under the Witwatersrand Native Labour Association (Wenela) have appealed to President Emmerson Mnangagwa to intervene in efforts to secure their pensions and compensation for injur…

Published: 28 Jun 2025 at 15:00hrs | 168 | by Staff reporter

Former ZBC employee still waiting for pension after retrenchment

A former Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) employee is making a desperate appeal for justice - ten years after being retrenched by the national broadcaster without receiving his pension.In a powerful open letter, the former worker re…

Published: 30 May 2025 at 08:49hrs | 357 | by Staff reporter

Chamisa has not collected his pension

Former Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has revealed that he has not collected the pension he accrued during his tenure as a Cabinet Minister and Member of Parliament over 11 years ago. His remarks were made during…

Published: 27 Oct 2024 at 13:17hrs | 1595 | by Staff reporter

'Zimbabweans should not over-rely on NSSA pension scheme'

Shepherd Muperi, Director of Social Security at the National Social Security Authority (NSSA), emphasized that individuals should not rely solely on the social security scheme for their retirement needs, as it only constitutes a small port…

Published: 15 Aug 2024 at 07:53hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe's public service workers to pay pension in foreign currency

The Treasury has announced that all public service workers earning in foreign currency must now make their pension contributions in the same currency, starting this year, as per the directive from the Public Service Commission (PSC).In cas…

Published: 03 Jun 2024 at 09:31hrs | 62 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe govt urged to dollarise pensions

THE Zimbabwe National Union of School Heads (Zinush) has pleaded for the dollarisation of pensions as inflation continues to eat away the life savings of educators, condemning many to poverty after years of loyal service.In a statement, Zi…

Published: 27 Dec 2023 at 07:32hrs | 26 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe pensioners to be compensated for 2007-9 losses

PENSIONERS who lost their life savings during the 2007 to 2009 hyper-inflation era will receive compensation from February 2024, a senior Insurance and Pensions Commission (Ipec) official has said.Speaking during a talk show on a commercia…

Published: 17 Nov 2023 at 05:05hrs | | by Staff reporter

Pensioners join Mnangagwa campaign trail

SOME pensioners have launched a shadowy group in support of President Emmerson Mnangagwa named the Zimbabwe Pensioners Welfare Trust for Economic Development (ZPWT4ED).Former Clerk of Parliament Austin Zvoma, who leads the group, told News…

Published: 17 Dec 2022 at 12:14hrs | 27 | by Staff reporter

NRZ pensioners' widows getting US$2 per month

OVER 70 widows of the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ)'s late workers are living in abject poverty in Bulawayo earning a paltry $1 200 per month, an equivalent of US$2.After enquiring with the NRZ about the low pension stipends, the wid…

Published: 19 Aug 2022 at 06:46hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter

Inclusivity vital for pension policy formulation

VENDORS Initiative for Social and Economic Transformation (Viset) takes note of the disclosure of diminished contributions by the National Social Security Authority (NSSA) deputy director Tambudzai Jongwe in a weekly newspaper.According to…

Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 06:16hrs | 19 | by Viset Information

Pittance payouts leave pensioners in dire straits

MR Gina Mudzviti (59) of Ultra High Suburb in Gwanda got injured in 2010 while he was working as a gang leader at a local mining company.He has made endless visits to hospital seeking medical help but the accident has left him with a perma…

Published: 26 May 2021 at 06:21hrs | 38 | by Staff reporter

100% payout hike, grocery vouchers for pensioners

PENSIONERS and widows are set to get a 100% increase to their monthly stipends, as well as grocery vouchers worth $3 000 from the National Social Security Authority (Nssa), NewsDay reported.Nssa deputy director for marketing Tendai Mutseye…

Published: 12 Apr 2021 at 07:06hrs | 24 | by Staff reporter

'Govt must compensate for lost pension earnings'

GOVERNMENT and insurance companies have an obligation to compensate pensioners who lost the true value of their pension savings in two consecutive periods of hyperinflation, 2008 to 2009 and 2019, lawyer and MDC Alliance legislator Tendai …

Published: 21 Nov 2020 at 22:20hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter

Chidyausiku pension row settled

THE High Court has ruled that the two widows of the late former Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku are both entitled to receive the national hero's pension.the determination by Justice Jacob Manzunzu came about after Chidyausiku's second wi…

Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 09:05hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter

Inflation-linked pay-outs for pensioners

Pensioners are set to start receiving inflation-adjusted pay-outs, as the National Social Security Authority (NSSA) starts reviewing the compensation framework.The latest recorded year-on-year inflation rate stood at 97,85 percent as at Ma…

Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 12:24hrs | 883 | by Staff reporter

Pensioners Allowances

Again this government of crooks will always please the sides that threaten its power. There is no effective threat from pensioners revolt if ever, and so they cannot be considered for allowances increase. The looters battered NASA has stay…

Published: 26 Apr 2019 at 16:48hrs | 1298 | by Clement Moyo (Mr)

Make bread 'reachable' to NSSA pensioners

This morning today, yes, today at around 9 a.m Mr Marufu a NSSA pensioner walked in front of me into a local supermarket in our area for bread. The senior citizen headed straight for the deli corner where 'breads' from various suppliers is…

Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 16:50hrs | 873 | by Gabarinocheka

NSSA pensioners are work veterans

Amon Taribho struggled to stand up as he rose to reach his medication for diabetes and hypertension, the sachet is kept on the top most shelf of his wardrobe, away from kids. The former machine operator who retired two years ago from a fir…

Published: 10 Apr 2019 at 06:46hrs | 20 | by Tondorindo

RTGS$ introduction inflicts further pensioner prejudice

MANY pensioners now being paid in Real-Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) dollars against their will have reported a drastic reduction in the purchasing power of their pensions.The RTGS$ is a new name given to bond notes, coins and electronic mo…

Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 09:58hrs | | by Martin Tarusenga

NSSA pensioners are crying for attention

Both government and the private sector are doing something on 'hardship allowance' for their workers whilst NSSA pensioners continue to sing the blues. One Hon.MP raised the plight of the suffering pensioners in Parliament early this month…

Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 19:03hrs | 16 | by Tondorindo

Let the elders catch fish for themselves

A bank for women, a bank for youths, a bank for..........etc, when will there be a bank for pensioners? Maybe its because of the general notion that pensioners are destined to expire but, who does not? The founder and owner of KFC is said …

Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 20:25hrs | 16 | by Tondo Murisa

NSSA pensioners are suffering

The prevailing price distortions in the country has thrown NSSA pensioners in the deep end. The paltry monthly pay outs has left most if not all hardly able to buy food and medications for ailments that usually come with old age. Many pens…

Published: 06 Nov 2018 at 07:33hrs | 16 | by Tondorindo Murisa

Chamisa promises Mnangagwa lucrative pension

MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa says he will reward President Emmerson Mnangagwa with a lucrative pension if he wins next month's presidential race. He also said when elected into power no senior government official, including him, will…

Published: 26 Jun 2018 at 07:24hrs | 4074 | by Staff reporter

NSSA pensioners deserve more

The alleged scandals unfolding or being unearthed at NSSA have left pensioners to content with paltry payouts. Otherwise, the elderly and not so healthy pensioners could be getting more that they deserve and NSSA can afford. The figures be…

Published: 09 May 2018 at 07:51hrs | 2889 | by Mrehwa Soko

Zimbabwe pensioners deserve more

'Any injustice to one is injustice to all', very true, I quote from another affected fellow suffering citizen. Indeed pension houses management are living in luxury and opulence at the expense of the 'dying' pensioners. If its NSSA I …

Published: 30 Mar 2018 at 21:18hrs | | by Tondorindo. Chinehasha

Payout rise for pensioners

The government is finalising the feasibility studies in its drive to increase the pensioners' payout that will see the least paid getting US$100 with results expected by as early as next month.The plight of pensioners which has seen most o…

Published: 19 May 2017 at 18:38hrs | 1750 | by Staff reporter

Life of an old, poor government pensioner in Zimbabwe

A pensioner is a person who collects a pension payout, most commonly because of retirement from active workforce.During the course of active work years, money is deducted from would be pensioner's salary  for soft landing when the tim…

Published: 21 Sep 2016 at 15:54hrs | 13 | by Clifford Sibanda

Minimum pensions go up this month

Minimum pensions go up this month for all those who are receiving NSSA pensions. The minimum retirement pension goes up from US$40 to US$60. The minimum invalidity and survivor's pension goes up from US$20 to US$30. Workers' Compensation p…

Published: 13 Aug 2013 at 06:09hrs | 14 | by National Social Security Authority

Vultures encircle pension fund

AN attempt by Finance Minister Mr Tendai Biti to "advise" the National Social Security Authority (NSSA) to bail out a technically insolvent bank has stirred a storm.Is the Finance Minister playing "Greedy Minister" by deliberately targetin…

Published: 12 Jun 2011 at 09:52hrs | 679 | by Kuda Bwititi

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