2 Aug 2021

Africa correspondent Debora Patta

From Nine To Noon, 9:48 am on 2 August 2021
People protest against the imprisonment of former president Jacob Zuma, in Johannesburg, South Africa on 12 July, 2021.

Photo: Timothy Barnard / Sputnik via AFP

In South Africa, Debora has been covering the deadliest violence since apartheid, sparked by the jailing of former President Jacob Zuma.

She says it has been fuelled by poverty and instigated by insurrectionists.

Also the Covid Delta variant is  making its way through Africa, with a devastating  third wave in South Africa, which is now moving elsewhere on the continent. 

Debora Patta is a CBS News foreign correspondent based in South Africa