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eNCA news crew got robbed at gunpoint while working at Khayelitsha on Wednesday afternoon.
Reporters for eNCA news broadcast got robbed at gunpoint shortly after completing a Live crossing back to the studio with equipment.
“We were just robbed at gunpoint in Khayelitsha after doing a live crossing. Now my colleague and I have to deal with an inept police officer telling us we can’t open the case at this station – a two-minute drive from where it happened – because it’s not in their jurisdiction… WTF?”
One of the crew gave a statement about what happened and how they felt, look at the feed below.
Being helped now. Everyone is being quite friendly now. Dunno if it’s because the other officer stepped in to assist or if it’s because we’re media 🤷🏾♀️
— Monique Mortlock (@MoniqueMortlock) April 7, 2021
Reporter Monique Mortlock and camera operator Asanda Javu were in Khayelistha, reporting on the lack of service delivery in the area.
Khayelitsha in Capetown has been unsettled for a while, with frequent protests about service delivery and housing spilling onto numbers of major highways. This week things got worse and luckily eNCA got the first shot but to their unlucky for the crew, things turned out bad when they got robbed at gunpoint.
Not only the eNCA equipment is taken, also the crew’s cellphones were taken by robbers at gunpoint. Luckily the crew is safe and sound but trauma didn’t stop with the robbery, still remains with them and it will be hard to deal with it for now as it’s new because it happened on Wednesday afternoon.