Meanwhile, in South Africa...

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TV Reporter Mugged On Camera By Armed Men



Armed men have been caught on camera mugging a journalist as he was about to give a live TV report in South Africa.

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.






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they certainly are sharp, just smile for the camera boys
 

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Geezus, talk about synchronicity!
Donal MacIntyre 'attacked by Chelsea football hooligans he exposed' in undercover TV report | Daily Mail Online

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Undercover reporter Donal MacIntyre and his wife were viciously attacked by a father and daughter in a bar brawl after drinkers turned on him for helping to convict Chelsea football hooligans, a court heard yesterday.
The TV journalist had visited the bar with wife Ameera De La Rose - who was suffering a brain tumour - when other drinkers noticed him.
They started to berate him for his part in a conviction of Jason Mariner - a football hooligan who was exposed in his programme 'MacIntyre Undercover'.

It was alleged that one of the drinkers, James Wild, attacked MacIntyre to seek revenge for Mariner's conviction and in a scuffle outside the venue, also struck De La Rose, bruising her arms.