Dramatic moment journalist is robbed at gunpoint seconds before going live on air

Dramatic footage showing the moment a journalist was robbed at gunpoint just seconds before going live on air has emerged.

Vuyo Mvoko, a reporter for South African broadcaster SABC News, was about to deliver a live report from outside Milpark Hospital in Johannesburg when he was confronted by two men, who can be seen grabbing for his pockets.

Another TV worker is heard saying: "We're being mugged, we're being mugged."

The robbers appear unaware that they are being filmed by the rolling cameras.

Describing the "terrifying" ordeal, Mvoko said: "I was literally seconds from going on air.

"When I wasn't giving him the phone, he calls the other one who has a gun."

He recalled how his colleague told him to immediately hand over his phone, before the suspects fled with numerous electrical goods.

Police are investigating the incident, he added.