Caught On Camera Armed Robber Mugs Journalist Live On Air

So desperate! The armed robbers did not want to take any chances of their victim escaping, think they are desperately in need Vuyo Mvoko was seconds away from going on air outside Milpark Hospital in Johannesburg on Tuesday night.
Two men, one apparently armed with a gun, accosted the reporter as he was about to give an update on Zambian President Edgar Lungu's condition.

A scuffle follows and Mvoko is heard saying: "Hey, we're being mugged!" Mvoko, who works for the South African Broadcasting Corporation, said afterwards: "He was looking for the phone. "And when I wasn't giving him the phone, he calls the other one who has a gun, to say 'shoot this dog' or something like that. "So I gave him the phone."

The robbers took two mobile phones and a laptop computer from the TV crew. The South African National Editors' Forum appealed to anyone who recognised the men to contact police. "Every South African lives with the reality of crime, but to see thugs brazenly ignoring television cameras and robbing media workers in the course of their work yet again brings home the level of criminality in our society," a spokesman said.

South Africa has a reputation as being one of the most violent countries in the world outside a war zone. President Lungu, 58, was undergoing medical tests at the hospital after he fell ill at the weekend.