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Diversified financial services company Zimnat has extended its arm into South Africa to enable Zimbabweans living there to take out funeral insurance, including the cost of bringing their bodies back home should they die in that country.
Zimnat Group chief executive officer Mustafa Sachak said they had been moved by the plight of Zimbabweans dying in South Africa, whose families were unable to afford the cost of repatriating bodies.
“We believe that we all deserve a decent burial, regardless of where we are. An estimated between one and three million Zimbabweans are currently living and working in South Africa and it is our responsibility as an organisation to make their life better through ensuring they maintain their dignity even in death,” he said.
There have been reports of some Zimbabweans smuggling bodies of their dead relatives into the country since the cost of the journey back home for burial falls beyond the reach of many. — New Ziana.
Online Reporter