• Leaders in Funeral Group Scheme Insurance

About Genlife

GENLIFE is an authorized Financial Services Provider specializing in funeral group scheme insurance. The leadership of GENLIFE has a combined experience in the financial services industry of more than 60 years, with a solid reputation in the Funeral Insurance industry. We are leaders in Group Funeral Insurance and apply our knowledge of the funeral industry to the benefit of our client base countrywide.

Our company, supported by our driven and committed team, understand the importance of striving for excellence to offer clients a personal service that exceeds expectations. We live by the principle of "your success is our success".

Apart from our competitive rates for group funeral cover, we also provide a one stop service in terms of our product offering. Our state-of-the-art Funeral Administration Software is free to all Genlife clients and will put you in full control of your business. Genlife, through the Genlife G.I.F.T Foundation, is involved in the communities where our clients reside – we are proud, and humble that we can make a difference in the lives of less privileged people.

Our funeral insurance product offering ranges from traditional funeral plans to custom funeral plans and many more in between.

Our integrated approach ensures we work with various industry role players to achieve pre-determined goals that will benefit our clients. Our clients are not only our business partners but become part of our family when they join GENLIFE. We are underwriters of various funeral policies, funeral cover and funeral insurance for our clients.

GENLIFE – a reliable and trustworthy partner.

Meet the team

Lorraine Heislitz-Venter

Lorraine
Heislitz-Venter

CEO / New Schemes

Japie Venter

Japie Venter

MD / Quotations

Johnathan Hampshire

Johnathan Hampshire

Head of Legal and Compliance

Willie Venter

Willie Venter

Finance Manager

Marelise Ernst

Marelise Visser

Claims Administrator

Hein Schoeman

Hein Schoeman

Information Technology

Reinhard Engelbrecht

Reinhard Engelbreght

Information Technology

Carmen Olivier

Carmen Olivier

Legal and Compliance (under supervision)

Lesego Mosane

Lesego Mosane

Claims and IT Support

Geradine Ruzzier

Geradine Ruzzier

Client Services

Hein Schoeman

Hein Schoeman

Information Technology

Why join genlife?

Personal Service

Personalized Service

Genlife is a leader in group funeral insurance and has a reputation for being genuine and loyal towards our clients. We pride ourselves on being dependable and having a sincere attitude. We are a focused and results-oriented company, providing solutions to help grow your business. We exceed client expectations by being attentive and proactive. Your success is our success – we live by this principle. In our effort to add value to you, your business and your members we go the extra mile. We apply our knowledge, gained over many years, to the benefit of our clients and by doing so, we strive to give Genlife's clients a competitive advantage over our opposition. Service above expectation is a cornerstone of how we do business at Genlife.

Competitive Rates

Competitive Rates

Genlife is well known in the industry for our extremely competitive rates for group funeral cover. Our strategy of regular rate comparisons with our opposition ensure that we stay ahead of our competition. This strategy has great advantages for all Genlife clients. We offer a complete service with value added benefits at no additional cost. We invite you to allow Genlife to do a free quote for underwriting your business. Saving our clients money when underwriting their members is an attribute we are proud of at Genlife. Our rates include a repatriation service to all SADC countries. Genlife has an extensive product range which include Single member plans, Single with children, Family plans, 1 + 5 society plan, 1 + 9 society plan and a 1 + 13 society plan – all competitively priced.

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Free Software

Free Software

Genlife has developed our own state-of-the-art Funeral Administration Software. Our software is a real time multi-level, multi-branch web based funeral administration software. The Gensoft® funeral software has many advantages over any other software. The best advantage is that the Gensoft® funeral software is FREE. Some of the benefits of Gensoft® include an online claims process, collection of premiums by debit order (by credit or debit card), by SASSA card and by Edcon card. The benefit Gensoft® has above other software is that all collections, by any method, is automatically linked to the profile of your members on the Gensoft® Funeral Software.

All Genlife clients can now add new members or edit existing members on the software, do claims online, collect premiums, get various reports including daily cash-up reports and issue customized policy certificates to your members.

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Personal Service

We Care

The Genlife G.I.F.T Foundation (Give It Forward Today) is a non-profit company registered as the vehicle through which Genlife channels its social responsibility program. Genlife operates business in ways that honour ethical values and respects people, communities and the natural environment. We become involved in communities where our clients are situated. We are sincere and passionate towards people less privileged than we are.

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