Chipo Sabeta is a media personality, sports journalist and sports administrator. In 2020, she was Awarded FIFA/CIES sports management network project winner (Worldwide).[1] [2] She is the first Zimbabwean female journalists to be included in the FIFA Ballon d'Or[3] voting panel since 2014.[4] [5]
Chipo was born in Nyanga, Zimbabwe, but grew up in Glen Norah suburb in Harare, where she had her early education before proceeding to Nhowe Mission School in Macheke.[6] Chipo Sabeta was of the founding journalists for Zimbabwe’s first tabloid,[7] The H Metro in 2009, she grew up the ranks within the organisation then became Senior Sports Reporter for ZIMPAPERS 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 Arsène Wenger.[8] [9] She is also the editor of The African Gazette magazine.
In 2023, she was appointed as the Africa Cup of Nations UK (ANCUK) communication executive.[10]