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South Africa crime in focus after television reporter mugged on camera

SA: Two men, one armed with a gun, were caught on camera late on Tuesday mugging a South African journalist in Johannesburg as he prepared for a live television report on Zambian President Edgar Lungu's hospital treatment.

 The incident is just one of scores of often violent crimes, including rape, robberies and murder recorded every day in Africa's most advanced economy, earning it a place among the most violent countries in the world outside a war zone.

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