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Debora Patta Biography

Debora Patta is a renowned South African broadcast journalist and investigative journalist who was born on September 1, 1964. She has origins from Calabria, Italy, and was born in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).

Patta is the Africa correspondent for the American news program titled The CBS Evening News.

She joined CBS in 2013, following her departure from 3rd Degree with Debora Patta, a long-running investigative and current affairs show.

Patta earned a Bachelor of Social Sciences degree from the University of Cape Town in 1984.

While in college, she taught aerobics for a short time.

Patta worked as a political activist teaching literacy in Cape Town’s squatter camps after graduating from college until 1990, when she began working as a freelance reporter for the BBC.

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Patta began her career as a reporter for Radio 702 in Johannesburg in 1990, rising through the ranks to news editor in 1994 and special assignments editor in 1997.

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