Chipo Sabeta is a media personality,

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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 is a town in Zimbabwe. At one time, the town was known as Inyanga. Location It is located in Nyanga District, Manicaland Province, in northeastern Zimbabwe, close to the International border with Mozambique. This location lies immediat ...

, but grew up in Glen Norah suburb in

Harare Harare (; formerly Salisbury ) is the capital and most populous city of Zimbabwe. The city proper has an area of 940 km2 (371 mi2) and a population of 2.12 million in the 2012 census and an estimated 3.12 million in its metropolitan ...

, 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

ZIMPAPERS Zimbabwe Newspapers (1980) Limited, operating as Zimpapers, is a state-controlled Zimbabwean mass media company. Originally a newspaper Publishing company, in the 2010s it expanded its operations to include commercial printing, radio and televi ...

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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References

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