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Licensed insurance companies in Zimbabwe (2026)

VerifiedVerified against the IPEC register, checked 2 Sept 2026.

The 69 insurance companies licensed in Zimbabwe in 2026, as recorded by the Insurance and Pensions Commission (IPEC), with the class of business and ownership each one is registered under.

69Licensed operators
12Life17% of entities19General (non-life)28% of entities8Cross-border groups60 domestically owned · 1 multilateral

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

  • Domestic private57 83%
  • Pan-African group8 12%
  • State-owned / parastatal2 3%
  • Mutual / cooperative1 1%
  • Regional / multilateral1 1%

“Cross-border groups” counts foreign multinationals and pan-regional groups; “domestically owned” counts domestic private, state-owned, mutual and captive entities. The register records the parent’s type, not its home market. How ownership is recorded

Licensed insurers in Zimbabwe

Showing 25 of 69 entities. The full, filterable table is on the country page; every row is in the JSON below.

InsurerClassOwnershipGroupVerification
Old Mutual Insurance Co ZimbabweGGeneral (Non-life)Pan-African groupOld Mutual LtdVerified
Old Mutual Life Assurance Co ZimbabweLLifePan-African groupOld Mutual LtdVerified
Grand Reinsurance CoRReinsurerPan-African groupGrand ReVerified
WAICA Reinsurance ZimbabweRReinsurerPan-African groupWAICA ReVerified
ZEP-RE (PTA Reinsurance) - Zimbabwe hubRReinsurerRegional / multilateralZEP-REVerified
AFC Insurance CoGGeneral (Non-life)State-owned / parastatalAFC Holdings (Agribank)Verified
Alliance Insurance CoGGeneral (Non-life)Domestic privateIndependentVerified
Allied Insurance CoGGeneral (Non-life)Domestic privateIndependentVerified
Baobab Life & Health (Life reassurer)RReinsurerPan-African groupZimRe HoldingsVerified
Bayce MicroinsuranceMMicroinsurerDomestic privateIndependentVerified
CBZ InsuranceGGeneral (Non-life)Domestic privateCBZ HoldingsVerified
CBZ LifeLLifeDomestic privateCBZ HoldingsVerified
Cell Insurance CoGGeneral (Non-life)Domestic privateIndependentVerified
Champions Insurance CoGGeneral (Non-life)Domestic privateIndependentVerified
Clarion Insurance CoGGeneral (Non-life)Domestic privateIndependentVerified
Clientsure MicroinsuranceMMicroinsurerDomestic privateIndependentVerified
Command MicroinsuranceMMicroinsurerDomestic privateKingdom Blue FuneralVerified
Coverlink Microinsurance CoMMicroinsurerDomestic privateCoverlink HoldingsVerified
Credit Insurance Zimbabwe (Credsure)GGeneral (Non-life)Domestic privateIndependentVerified
Doves Life AssuranceLLifeDomestic privateDoves HoldingsVerified
EBA MicroinsuranceMMicroinsurerDomestic privateIndependentVerified
Econet InsuranceGGeneral (Non-life)Domestic privateEconet / EcoCash HoldingsVerified
Econet Life (EcoSure)LLifeDomestic privateEconet / EcoCash HoldingsVerified
Emeritus ReRReinsurerPan-African groupZimRe HoldingsVerified
Empaya Insurance CoGGeneral (Non-life)Domestic privateIndependentVerified

Full table for Zimbabwe ↗

Regulatory intelligence: Zimbabwe

Read from the register, not written for this page: the supervisor’s regime, the source the list was checked against, and the market notes recorded alongside it.

Regime
Insurance Act; multi-currency
Register source
IPEC Regulated Entities register, ipec.co.zw (2026): 12 life, 20 short-term, 4 life reassurers, 10 short-term reinsurers, 16 microinsurers, 10 funeral assurers
Verification
Verified against the regulator register · IPEC Regulated Entities 2026

No market event is recorded against this register for 2026. The regime and source above are the standing facts.

Governing legislation

  • Insurance and Pensions Commission Act, Chapter 24:21 · Institutional and insurance framework

    The Act establishes IPEC to regulate insurance and pensions and protect policyholders and pension-fund members.

Verification log

Removed Tristar (not registered) and Baobab as non-life re; added AFC, Econet Insurance, Empaya, ECGC, Quality, Safel, Nhaka Life, Evolution H&L, Muca Re, Transaxis Re, Tropical Re, FMRE, ZB Re, 16 microinsurers, 10 funeral assurers

For B2B teams and AI agents

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