Debora Patta Biography and Wiki
Debora Patta is a South African Award-winning journalist and television personality working as an investigative reporter and a foreign correspondent for CBS News based in her hometown Johannesburg, South Africa.
Debora Patta Age and Birthday
The investigative journalist was born on September 1, 1964, in Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). She is 58 years old as of 2022.
Her birth sign is Virgo. Debora turns 59 years old on Sept. 1, 2023.
Debora Patta Height
She stands at an approximate height of 5 feet 7 inches. (170 cm). Patta weighs 60 kg (132 lbs).
Debora Patta Education
The news reporter studied at Rustenburg School for Girls in the Rondebosch suburb of Cape Town. She matriculated in 1981 and then joined the University of Cape Town.
She briefly taught aerobics while at the university and graduated in 1984 with a Bachelor of Social Sciences.
Debora Patta Family, Parents, Siblings
Patta was born in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) to her Italian parents who are originally from Praia a Mare in Calabria.
Her father had emigrated as a train worker while her mother was a devoted Catholic and nurse. She later relocated to South Africa with her mum and her sister after her parents parted ways through a divorce in 1976.
More details concerning her family background will be updated soon.
Debora Patta Husband
Moving on to her love life, she is happily married to entrepreneur Lance Levitas. The pair exchanged their wedding vows in June 2003.
Prior to that, she was espoused to Mweli Mzizi, a black filmmaker and Zulu prince. They got married in January 1996 but later got divorced in 2002.
Debora Patta Children
She is a proud mother to her two kids named Chiara and Isabella.
Debora Patta Salary
According to CBS estimates, she receives an average annual salary ranging from $36,599 to $124,399. Her contract with the exact figures is yet to be released.
Debora Patta Net Worth
The television personality has an estimated net worth ranging from $100,000 to $1 million. This amount is from her extensive career as a journalist among other investments.
Debora Patta CBS News
Since joining CBS News in 2013, she has worked as an investigative reporter and a foreign correspondent and has reported on major international stories across the continent including the Ebola outbreak, the kidnapping of schoolgirls by Boko Haram, and the famine in South Sudan.
Patta reports for all CBS News broadcasts and platforms, including the CBS Evening News, CBS Mornings, and CBSN, CBS News’ 24/7 streaming news service.
She also wrote a book on Nelson Mandela in 2000, and was CBS News’ lead correspondent after his death, providing on-the-ground coverage of his funeral and celebration of his life and impact on South Africa.
Debora has been named Vodacom Media Woman of the Year, South Africa’s Most Influential Woman in Media, and Italy’s Woman of the World.
She is the recipient of an Edward R. Murrow Award; an NABJ Salute to Excellence award; and a Scripps Howard award for broadcast excellence.