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Zimbabwe’s move to expand the Insurance and Pensions Commission’s (IPEC) authority over medical aid societies is being framed as a major win for consumer protection. But beneath the reform lies a difficult question: can a regulator truly protect policyholders in a system it does not control?<\/p>\n
On April 24, 2026, the government gazetted the Insurance and Pensions Commission Amendment Act, formally bringing medical aid societies under IPEC’s registration, supervision, and regulatory oversight. The…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Zimbabwe’s move to expand the Insurance and Pensions Commission’s (IPEC) authority over medical aid societies is being framed as a major win for consumer protection. But beneath the reform lies a difficult question: can a regulator truly protect policyholders in a system it does not control? On April 24, 2026, the government gazetted the Insurance […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,7828,6877,11509,6642,7417,257,17947,19873,7349,254,421,7726],"class_list":["post-233733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-aid","tag-control","tag-costs","tag-creating","tag-medical","tag-news","tag-overhaul","tag-regulator","tag-risks","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe-news","tag-zimbabwes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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