Author: Calvin Manika
Calvin Manika is a Zimbabwean journalist renowned for his in-depth reporting on insurance, financial inclusion, and social impact. With near a decade of experience, he has contributed to prominent media outlets such as Al Jazeera, The Continent, The Independent UK, and is our resident contributor in Zimbabwe.
Declining lapse rate signals renewed confidence in Zimbabwe’s life insurance sector
Zimbabwe insurers witnessed a low lapse rate in the life insurance sector during the final quarter of 2024, showing that fewer policyholders were allo [...]
Ethical business practices could stem fraud and corruption while boosting insurance uptake
Ethical business practices could help the Zimbabwean insurance sector to stem fraud and corruption, helping boost the penetration rate by addressing p [...]
Search for stability drives more Zimbabweans to foreign currency-denominated life policies
More Zimbabweans are ditching locally-priced insurance policies for foreign-currency denominated ones in search of stability amid volatile foreign exc [...]
Zimbabwe’s life insurers losing revenue from not taken up policies
Zimbabwe’s life insurance sector is witnessing a persistently high number of not taken up (NTU) policies, leading to substantial revenue losses in a m [...]
Funeral assurance and group life top revenue drivers in Zimbabwe’s life insurance
Funeral assurance and group life assurance emerged the primary revenue drivers for the life sector in Zimbabwe, according to the Insurance and Pension [...]
ATIDI showcases place of development insurance in Africa’s risk mitigation
Innovative insurance solutions are driving sustainable development across Africa, according to African Trade and Investment Development Insurance (ATI [...]
Zimbabwe’s draft law places customer protection at the centre
Over the past years, the insurance sector in Zimbabwe has seen various changes in laws and regulations in a bid to bring the regulator, underwriters a [...]
Repeated fires emphasise chance for insurers to safeguard Zimbabwe’s small businesses
On October 9, 2024, Zimbabwe woke up to devastating news for micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs). A fire razed parts of the Mbare inform [...]
Farmers’ basket insurance: A game-changer for Zimbabwe’s smallholder farmers
Zimbabwe's agriculture sector faces growing challenges in a nation that is becoming more and more susceptible to risks associated with climate change. [...]
Forum pitches for innovation in agricultural insurance
The labour of farmers, whether from large or small agribusinesses, hardly goes unnoticed in African economies. However, farmers confront numerous risk [...]