Southern Africa · LS · LSL
Lesotho
10 licensed entities supervised by the Central Bank of Lesotho (Insurance Supervision).
- Listed insurers
- 10
- Insurance classes
- 2
- Groups present
- 3
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Lesotho
- English / Southern Sotho
- Lesotho
Name reference: mledoze/countries · ODbL data · ODbL licence. Flag artwork: flag-icons · MIT.
By class of business
Each company is counted once, under the class its register row records. The supervisor’s own tally counts licences, so a company licensed for more than one class appears more than once there.
By ownership
Verification log
Verified - full register · Central Bank of Lesotho directory of Other Financial Institutions, category "Insurance Companies" (sub-categories Long term Insurers and Short term Insurers), retrieved 22 Sep 2026: 6 long-term and 4 short-term insurers
Reconciled to the Central Bank of Lesotho directory of insurance companies (10): all 5 rows matched, 5 added (Alliance General, NBC Lesotho Insurance, Specialized Insurance, Transafrica Life, Zenith Horizon); Alliance Insurance corrected from composite to long-term.
Licensed insurers in Lesotho
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| Company | Class | Parent / group | Ownership | Regulator | Verification | Popularity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alliance Insurance Co Lesotho Registered as Alliance Insurance Company Limited | LLife | Independent | Domestic private | CBL | Verified | — |
| LNIG Hollard General Lesotho National Insurance Group; Registered as Lesotho National General Insurance Company Limited | GGeneral (Non-life) | Hollard Group | Pan-African group | CBL | Verified | — |
| LNIG Hollard Life Registered as Lesotho National Life Assurance Company Limited | LLife | Hollard Group | Pan-African group | CBL | Verified | 94 Confidence: Medium |
| Liberty Life LesothoJSE: SBK | LLife | Liberty / Standard Bank Group | Pan-African group | CBL | Verified | 47 Confidence: Low |
| Metropolitan LesothoJSE: MTM | LLife | Momentum Group | Pan-African group | CBL | Verified | — |
| Alliance General Insurance Company Ltd ownership not researched | GGeneral (Non-life) | Parent not named in register | Domestic private | CBL | Verified | — |
| NBC Lesotho Insurance Company Ltd ownership not researched | LLife | Parent not named in register | Domestic private | CBL | Verified | — |
| Specialized Insurance Company Ltd ownership not researched | GGeneral (Non-life) | Parent not named in register | Domestic private | CBL | Verified | — |
| Transafrica Life Insurance Company Ltd ownership not researched | LLife | Parent not named in register | Domestic private | CBL | Verified | — |
| Zenith Horizon Insurance Company Ltd ownership not researched | GGeneral (Non-life) | Parent not named in register | Domestic private | CBL | Verified | — |
No insurers match that filter.
Popularity is an estimate of how often people search Google for each insurer, from 0 to 100; the bars show how confident the estimate is. Not a rating of the insurer. How the index works
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