Vuyo Mvoko Robbed While Preparing For Live Shot

SABC Contributing Editor, Vuyo Mvoko, and his crew were mugged outside Milpark Hospital in Johannesburg while getting ready to go live on the SABC News Channel.

He was covering the arrival of Zambian President, Edgar Lungu at the hospital (Mvoko, of course, regularly covers continental stories for the news organisation).

Late on Tuesday evening he tweeted that he was "safe and sound" and linked to the video of the mugging, which shows the faces of the perpetrators, who were later identified (and ridiculed on social media). 

UPDATE: The South African National Editor's Forum sent out the following statement on March 11th:
 The South African National Editors’ Forum notes with concern the mugging of SABC Contributing Editor Vuyo Mvoko and several senior staffers, captured on camera outside Johannesburg’s Millpark Hospital, as he was about to cross live for a 7pm television news segment on Tuesday night.  One of Vuyo’s muggers is clearly heard exhorting his colleague to “shoot the dog”. The SABC crew were robbed of their cellphones and a laptop, but thankfully were not harmed. 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. The muggers are clearly identifiable on camera and we hope that arrests and prosecution will occur soon. Sanef appeals to members of the public who recognise the men to do the right thing and alert the police to their identities and whereabouts so that the law can take its course.