Praise Dumi Dhlakama is a Zimbabwean sports journalist and media professional with more than nine years in newsrooms, studios and campaign work, and he writes the Zimbabwe betting guides for AXN Sports. He came to betting from the reporting side rather than the tipping side, which shows in how he works: the club, the squad news and the form first, then whether the price on offer is worth taking. Readers in Harare and Bulawayo will know his voice from radio and television sports analysis before they meet it here.
What he writes about
Football carries most of Praise’s work, and Zimbabwean football above all. He covers the Castle Lager Premier Soccer League week by week, the Battle of Zimbabwe between Dynamos and Highlanders, the Warriors through Africa Cup of Nations qualifying, and the newer domestic silverware that has changed the calendar, the ZIFA Munhumutapa Challenge Cup and the Chibuku Super Cup. Cricket sits alongside it, since the national side and the growth of T20 keep Zimbabwean betslips busy outside the football season. Around the match analysis he writes the operator comparisons on this site, the payment guides covering EcoCash and OneMoney, and plain explanations of decimal odds, multibets, bonus terms and the 25% withholding tax that now comes off a payout.
Experience and background
Praise has spent over nine years across journalism, sports media, communications and digital storytelling, with more than a hundred published sports articles and media stories to his name. He has worked with Grassroot Soccer, running newsletters and campaigns for an organisation that uses football to reach young Zimbabweans, and he appears regularly as a sports analyst on ZBC television and on radio. He co-founded OnSport Magazine, and he runs D&F Multimedia, a branding and digital marketing outfit through which he has produced more than thirty multimedia and digital campaigns. His work has been recognised with awards, and he manages professional accounts across four major social platforms, which keeps him close to how Zimbabwean fans actually follow a match.
How he approaches a betting guide
Praise starts from what a Zimbabwean bettor actually does: opens an account on a phone, funds it with EcoCash, and wants the winnings back in the same wallet in US dollars without a week of waiting. So he tests that path rather than describing it. He checks the licensing position first, and he is explicit that Zimbabwe has issued no dedicated online betting licence, so a reader knows exactly what a brand is regulated by before depositing. Bonus terms get read in full, because the wagering requirement usually matters more than the headline figure, and the 25% tax on winnings gets stated plainly, since it changes what you finally collect. Where the local league is priced more loosely than the European fixtures, he says so, and explains why following the Premier Soccer League closely is the edge a Zimbabwean bettor already has.
