FIDELITY Life Assurance has embarked on a graveyard uplift exercise as part of their commitment to serving the community and maintaining Harare’s status as the “sunshine city”.
Fidelity also sees the move as part of the deal they offer to buyers of their life insurance policies.
News Group Managing Director of Fidelity Life Assurance, Simon Chapereka told state television yesterday that his company had embarked on the programme with the desire to uphold high standards of cleanliness in the city’s grave yards and give those people purchasing life assurance policies that they are getting value for money.
The company which was celebrating its first anniversary by offered to clean up and maintain part of Granville Cemetry’s A Section.
Harare City Council welcomed the move.
Fidelity provides life assurance, pensions, and related business. It operates in two divisions, Individual Life and Group Pension.
The Individual Life division offers investment products comprising multipayment plan and cash builder plans, as well as life assurance products, including little genius plan, temple bar retirement annuities, whole life policies, and endowment assurance policies.
The company also provides financial services, including financial planning advisory, administration of the life portfolio, client management, public relations and corporate communication, employee benefits advisory, services relating to statutory requirements, day to day administration and accounting, asset management, and actuarial.
Nova, Edinburgh • na. Subject: UNTIL DEATH DO US PART Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:47:47 • It is interesting that in Switzerland, where land is limited, every 25 years graves are turned over to the next occupant, whether it is a family member or a stranger.
This could be one way of Zimbabweans saving cash on buying a new section in the same cemetary.
Some 36 years ago, when my own father died of a heart attack only a couple of weeks after my mother was buried,(died of cancer), we insisted her grave be reopened and his coffin lowered onto hers.
There was no problem with this practical move at all from the council. As it happened 36 years ago the grave is obviusly now ready to be opened and another family member to be buried in it.
It not only saved us buying the grave next door to hers but we found comfort in knowing that our parents were together in the same pit at last.
the only hiccup was that a strange woman dressed in black lace arrived in heavy mourning at the ceremony. Nobody knew her but it transpired that he had been my father's mistress for many years!
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