Continue reading the main story “ Start Quote I couldn't understand why they'd walk right in front of the camera because the light is on and they could see that” Vuyo Mvoko Shortly afterwards, Mr Mvoko, who is a contributing editor for the national news channel, tweeted that he was safe and sound and posted a link to the mugging, which has gone viral.
Police said the robbers took laptops and mobile phones and that officers were investigating in the incident. "Hopefully someone will be able to identify them and get them arrested," Mr Mvoko told the BBC's News-day programme. He said it took him a while to realise what was happening as it was less than a minute till he was due to go live. "It was like seconds to air and then the commotion started...
I couldn't understand why they'd walk right in front of the camera because the light is on and they could see that - and our car is branded, so they could see that this is a live broadcast."
The thieves told him to hand over his phone, which he said was in his hand. "Because I wasn't giving him the phone, he then called the other one who had a gun, and said: 'Dubula le nja' [Shoot this dog]," Mr Mvoko told SABC.
At this point he said another member of the team screamed at him to hand over the phone, which he did. The SA National Editors' Forum (Sanef) has condemned the mugging. "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,"
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