Zimnat launches digital magazine
Zimnat has launched a digital financial services magazine, dubbed “Zimnat Insider”, in its continuous quest to make life better and respond to the environment. This launch of the digital magazine comes at an opportune time where we are faced with a pandemic which calls for social distancing and minimising contact.
The Zimnat Insider Magazine is a digital financial services magazine designed to provide educative and entertaining information to our customers and stakeholders at large. The magazine will feature topics ranging from socio-economic issues, insurance, wealth management and entertainment. The magazine will be available from the Zimnat website and the group’s social media pages. Copies will also be sent directly to Zimnat clients.
Commenting on the launch of the magazine, Zimnat Group CEO Mustafa Sachak said, “as Zimnat our purpose is to make life better in all our endeavours and this new magazine will help bridge the information gap with regards to financial advice to help people realise their full potential. The idea of publishing a magazine came up after we realised that as financial service providers in the country, we could do more to promote financial literacy and given the current lockdown regulations in place most people have ample time on their hands to read.
We acknowledge that the news cycles have been dominated by Covid-19 and this can be a bit overwhelming and disconcerting to some, so we hope that this new publication will help all our stakeholders keep their minds preoccupied and active. To ensure we cater for the psychosocial well-being of the family in these trying times, the magazines also have brain teasers that allow readers to participate as families. We hope this will also give families the opportunity to also use their digital devices in a manner that promotes social cohesion,” said Mr Sachak.
The launch of the digital magazine comes after the organisation was featured in the Fintech Magazine of April 2020 for its trailblazing efforts in digital transformation in the Zimbabwean insurance sector.
The group has seen various innovations that seek to make life better for Zimbabweans being launched this year with the most recent one being the launch of the inflation adjusted Gadziriro funeral cash plan.
Zimnat is a diversified financial services group made up of Zimnat General Insurance, Zimnat Asset Management, Zimnat Microfinance and Zimnat Life Assurance. The group is associated with Sanlam the largest non-banking financial services group on the continent.
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Zimnat hosts online cocktail party for clients
Zimnat has found an innovative way to interact with and entertain its clients during the Covid‑19 lockdown, by holding online cocktail parties, which it has branded Gungano/Umhlangano Online Cocktail Parties.
The first of these was held today (Friday) for Zimnat Life Assurance corporate customers. More will be held in the coming weeks.
Invitations to attend the online cocktail party were sent out earlier in the week. Food and drinks were delivered to each invited client’s preferred location 30 minutes before the online party began.
The online cocktail party was run in a similar way to normal client cocktail parties with food, drinks, entertainment and customers were able to interact with the organisation’s management team.
It is believed to be the first Zimbabwean company to hold such an event. It is certainly the first within the country’s insurance services industry to do so.
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Zimnat group marketing executive Tatenda Marongwe said the idea was inspired by the realisation that Zimnat needed to maintain its engagement with customers, regardless of the Covid-19 pandemic, to provide them with much needed reassurance.
“Because of the value Zimnat places on keeping its customers engaged, we decided to find an alternative to the cocktail parties we usually hold for them and not allow the pandemic to prevent us from interacting with them. We believe in dancing in the rain.
That’s how the concept of the Gungano/Umhlangano Online Cocktail Party was born. Today’s event was the first such online cocktail party. It was so successful that we will continue to hold such events for various clusters of clients until such a time when we can once again meet with them physically,” she said.
“It has been a difficult time for us all, including our customers. We realised that at some point we needed to work around the new normal and find ways to continuously engage with our customers, as we continue to make their lives better,” she added.
Zimnat has put in place protocols, in line with World Health Organisation recommendations, to play its part in contributing to efforts to flatten the Covid‑19 curve. Most employees are working from home. Customers are being encouraged to minimise visits to Zimnat offices, making use instead of virtual platforms for all enquiries.
The Zimnat Group, which is a diversified financial services group associated with Sanlam, the largest non-banking financial services group on the continent, incorporates Zimnat Life Assurance, Zimnat General Insurance, Zimnat Financial Services, Zimnat Asset Management and the Funeral Services Group.
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Zimnat continues to make life better for the elderly
Zimnat, has lived to Its promise to continuously support the elderly by providing free motor insurance cover for some of Melfort Old People’s Home vehicles for the year 2020, a continuation from 2019.
Located along Mutare Road, in Harare, Melfort Old People’s Home, which is registered with Help Age, accommodates up to 60 elderly residents, most of whom have been referred to it by the social welfare department.
The home received a donation of vehicles beginning of 2019 and immediately approached the Zimnat Group for assistance with motor insurance.
With the knowledge that the elderly, the community’s senior citizens need as much help as they can get, Zimnat decided to provide free insurance cover for the home’s vehicles.
The first-year term of insurance recently expired and Zimnat proactively renewed the insurance for another year.
Upon visiting the home initially, it was discovered that much more needed to be done to help the institution make life better for its residents.
This resulted in the launch of a charity drive dubbed the Heart to Hand Campaign which resulted in a significant donation of goods which included:
- A 4-plate gas stove, bed linen, grocery items, clothes, cleaning detergents and agricultural inputs that would help the institution become self-sufficient.
The Group Chief Executive Officer, Mustafa Sachak, then committed to continuously see to it that support is rendered to Melfort Old People’s Home.
Zimnat has not disappointed, they have proactively renewed the insurance, free of charge for another year.
“We endeavour to continue making life better for the Melfort community, despite these challenging times, and hope our efforts will go a long way” said Tatenda Marongwe Zimnat Group Marketing Executive
“The Zimnat and Masawara family have shown us kindness and love over the past years and we are so grateful that they always help us in whatever way they can” said Pastor Francis the home’s superintendent.
Zimnat is a diversified financial group that offers products across the financial and insurance spectrum. It has four business units namely Zimnat General Insurance, Zimnat Life Assurance, Zimnat Financial Services and Zimnat Asset Management.
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