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South African TV news woman Debora Patta - the presenter of 3rd Degree on e.tv and often fill-in substitute anchor on the eNCA (DStv 403) - surprisingly showed up as a correspondent for the CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley in America last night.
Debora Patta appeared on television in America and around the world when she did a story on the new hospitalisation of Nelson Mandela for the daily American evening news bulletin on Thursday evening.
Since the CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley is also shown on Sky News (DStv 402), the adjacently located 24-hour British news channel next to the eNCA on the DStv channel number line-up, it means that although Debora Patta works for eNews and the eNCA, that she appeared on the direct competitor TV news channel to the eNCA to do a news story.
Debora Patta has been clocking up on face time on international 24-hour TV news channels this year.
Besides now having been on the CBS TV network in America and their daily news show, and being seen on Sky News last night doing the link from Johannesburg, Debora Patta appeared on CNN International (DStv 401) in February.
Then however she was not reporting a story as a correspondent, but appeared on the air as an analyst and opinion-maker for her perspective on the Oscar Pistorius case.
