Chipo Sabeta is a media personality,

sports journalist Sport is a physical activity or game, often competitive and organized, that maintains or improves physical ability and skills. Sport may provide enjoyment to participants and entertainment to spectators. The number of participants in a par ...

and sports administrator. In 2020, she was Awarded FIFA/CIES sports management network project winner (Worldwide). She is the first Zimbabwean female journalists to be included in the

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voting panel since 2014.

Career

Chipo was born in

Nyanga, Zimbabwe Nyanga, originally known as Inyanga, is a town in Zimbabwe. Location It is located in Nyanga District, Manicaland Province, in Eastern Highland of Zimbabwe, along the international border with Mozambique. This location lies immediately north o ...

, but grew up in Glen Norah suburb in

Harare Harare ( ), formerly Salisbury, is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Zimbabwe. The city proper has an area of , a population of 1,849,600 as of the 2022 Zimbabwe census, 2022 census and an estimated 2,487,209 people in its metrop ...

, where she had her early education before proceeding to Nhowe Mission School in Macheke. Chipo Sabeta was of the founding journalists for Zimbabwe’s first tabloid, ''The H Metro'' in 2009, she grew up the ranks within the organisation then became Senior Sports Reporter for

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which houses ''H-Metro'', '' The Herald'', ''ZTN'', ''The Chronicle'', Star FM Zimbabwe and ''Business Weekly'' from 2010 to 2019. In 2022 she was formally awarded the FIFA/CIES award which she won through Nelson Mandela University at FIFA headquarters by

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. She is also the editor of The African Gazette magazine. In 2023, she was appointed as the

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UK (ANCUK) communication executive.https://www.herald.co.zw/influential-uk-post-for-sabeta/

References

Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Zimbabwean women journalists Women sports journalists People from Harare {{Zimbabwe-journalist-stub