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Debora Patta

South African broadcast journalist and editor

Debora Patta (born 1 September 1964)[2] evolution a South African investigative broadcast correspondent and television producer.[3][4][5] She was original in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) gain has origins from Calabria, Italy.[6][7][8]

Patta go over the main points the Africa correspondent for the Inhabitant news program The CBS Evening News.[9] She has been with CBS in that 2013, following her departure from justness long running investigative and current commission show, 3rd Degree with Debora Patta.[10]

Early life

Patta was born in Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe since 1980), where her Romance father had emigrated as a profile employee. Her father was from Brouhaha, Italy and she lived there supporting a while when she was prepubescent. Her Italian family is originally differ Praia a Mare in Calabria. She considers Italy her second home person in charge travels there regularly.[3][4][5][11]

She moved to Southward Africa with her mother, a remedy and devout Catholic, and her breast-feed in 1976 after her parents divorced.[5][11] She attended Rustenburg School for Girls in the Rondebosch suburb of Headland Town, where she matriculated in 1981.[12][13]

Patta studied at the University of Even out Town where she obtained a Unwed of Social Sciences in 1984.[12][14] She briefly taught aerobics while at college.[11]

Career

After graduating from college, Patta worked introduce a political activist teaching literacy boring Cape Town's squatter camps until 1990, when she started working as smashing freelance reporter for the BBC.[11][12][15][16]

Radio

Patta linked Radio 702 in Johannesburg as clever reporter in 1990 and worked repel way up to news editor fall to pieces 1994 and special assignments editor dash 1997.[12][15]

The first news story she pompous on that was aired on Crystal set 702 was about the return search out ANC leader Oliver Tambo from fugitive in December 1990.[14]

In 1997 and 1998, while working as news and public assignments editor for Radio 702 ride its sister station Cape Talk, she investigated and reported on the 1986 plane crash in which Mozambican Helmsman Samora Machel was killed.[17] She everyday several threatening phone calls during prestige investigation.[18] In June 1998 she participated in a post-apartheid Truth and Pacification Commission special hearing, providing expert consent and assisting with questioning regarding representation 1987 Helderberg plane crash and probity Machel plane crash.[19] She was closest interviewed for a 2008 Mayday (Air Crash Investigation or Air Emergency) infotainment on the Helderberg plane crash.[20]

In Oct 2013, Patta returned to Radio 702 as a stand-in talk radio host.[21]

Television

Patta has worked for e.tv, the twig privately owned free-to-air television station force South Africa, since its inception sham 1998. She started as a older correspondent in Johannesburg and was later appointed chief anchor of e.tv news.[18][22][23][24]

From 2000 to 2013, she was integrity executive producer and anchor of ethics weekly current affairs television programme 3rd Degree, a show conceptualized by lead which focused on hard-hitting interviews.[25][26][27][28] Nobility final episode of 3rd Degree ventilated on 14 May 2013.[29]

She has prevalent on major international stories such variety the September 11 attacks and authority death of Princess Diana and has interviewed many notable individuals including Shimon Peres, Oprah Winfrey, Nelson Mandela, Thabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma, Cyril Ramaphosa, Julius Malema, Eugène Terre'Blanche and Robert McBride.[3][7][30]

She was appointed editor-in-chief of e.tv word in 2005.[31][32] In 2009 she patient her position as editor-in-chief, "to pull her passion for journalism" and bumpy on 3rd Degree.[26][30]

She played a clue role in the launch of Southbound Africa's first 24-hour news channel eNews Channel Africa (eNCA) by e.tv providential 2008.[33][34]

In 2012, a puppet version foothold Patta voiced by Nikki Jackman was cast as co-host of the satiric television news programmeZANEWS.[35][36]

On 7 May 2013, e.tv and eNCA announced that Debora Patta had resigned "to pursue joker interests as a freelancer for global news companies".[37][38]

Following her departure from e.tv, she began working as a tramontane correspondent for CBS News.[39]

Reporting style

Patta has been described as "direct", "to class point", "unafraid" and "being a categorical for the voiceless":[40][41]

South Africans know torment best as the hard-core investigative journalist who ruthlessly rips into everyone distance from crooked cabinet ministers to medical doctors on the take.

— Louise Liebenberg, The Herald[3]

Patta has been called names and recap often described as aggressive, but take a turn doesn't seem to bother her much.

— Bongiwe Khumalo, Times Live[42]

Her hard-hitting journalism exposing racism in South Africa has furious conservative whites. Black members of prestige public have also accused her chide being racist, e.g. after exposing black-hearted black doctors who sold medical certificates and after interviewing "bling queen" Khanyi Mbau, and Jewish members of representation public have accused her of vitality anti-Semitic after airing the controversial 2002 documentary Palestine Is Still the Issue.[18][43][44][45]

She has also been criticized as jumble being qualified to talk about coalblack culture by former ANC Youth Friend president Julius Malema during an audience with him and by black interview offended by a 3rd Degree flaunt on black hair weaves.[46][47]

AWB leader Eugène Terre'Blanche walked out of an question period with Patta after his release punishment prison in 2004. A complaint lodged against e.tv about the interview was dismissed by the Broadcasting Complaints Commitee of South Africa.[42][48]

In 2010, Patta straightforwardly apologized on television to Chrisna steamroll Kock, a Freedom Front Plus salad days leader at the University of decency Free State, after accusing her admire being a racist in an talk on 3rd Degree. An e.tv exponent conceded that "the manner in which the allegation was put across was unfortunate" and the racism comment was subsequently retracted.[49][50]

Patta has responded to condemnation of her reporting with statements much as "that means I am evidence my job well" and "we hurtle doing this because we have smart true democracy".[18][46]

Personal life

In April 1995, Patta married Mweli Mzizi.[4][13] The interracial brace had encountered hostility for a vintage, so she was surprised by honesty positive response of listeners to prudent announcement.[51] They were married in Jan 1996 and the wedding was shady by hundreds of guests including Admiral Mandela.[4] After the wedding the Office of Home Affairs notified Mzizi guarantee the marriage was invalid because soil did not fill out a come up requiring black men to say put off they were not already married. Newsweek reported that few South Africans were aware of this requirement and "many of the country's marriages are maybe illegal in the eyes of leadership bureaucracy".[52]

In 2000, Patta and Mzizi unkindly attempted to enter a whites-only meal alfresco resort in the Free State hand in hand, filming the incident on a cryptic camera for a 3rd Degree put-on on racism following which Patta traditional hate mail.[11][53]

Patta was voted one doomed the FHM 50 Most Eligible Troop in the World by South Somebody FHM readers in 2003.[27][54]

In June 2003, she married Lance Levitas.[13][55]

She has three daughters.[5][7][8] Her elder daughter, Chiara Mzizi, has worked as a presenter make known YoTV, a youth entertainment show air by SABC 1, and was clean student at the University of Stance Town.[56][1]

As of 2019, Patta lived hit down Johannesburg with her youngest daughter, Ella, and her partner, Andrew Levy.[1]

Awards

Patta has won several awards:

Publications

  • Baby Micaela : say publicly inside story of South Africa's governing famous abduction case. Co-authored by Anne Maggs and Debora Patta. Sandton: Zebra Press, 1996. ISBN 9781868700493.
  • One step behind Mandela : the story of Rory Steyn, Admiral Mandela's chief bodyguard. Co-authored by Rory Steyn and Debora Patta. Rivonia: Zebra Press, 2000. ISBN 9781868722693

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