Two tourists filmed their happy Cape Town run. Then they were robbed
A sunny TikTok of two friends running in Cape Town with Table Mountain behind them carries a caption saying they were robbed at gunpoint. Watch the clip and see how Mzansi reacted.
Two friends grin at the camera at a table, jog along a misty beach, then run a sunny road with Table Mountain behind them, phones in hand. The twist is in the on-screen caption of the six-second TikTok @elladymalla posted on 26 October: "Little did they know their run would get them robbed at gun point and they would spend their second day in Cape Town filing police reports ..." It has about 651,000 views and 35,700 likes.
The clip doesn't say exactly where the robbery happened or whether anyone was hurt, and Reported hasn't been able to confirm the details with police. Briefly News reported that the creator is a tourist from Australia.
Nearly 600 comments came in, many of them from South Africans. The most liked ones question running with phones out, while others push back on what they call victim blaming and share safer routes and travel tips.
What the comments are saying
@lauren.elise.kell:
"Running with your phones out in SA?! 😳" (11,042 likes)
@marce_4114:
"I’m sorry this happened to you, but tourists being oblivious to the dangers of the countries they vist is annoying." (9,561 likes)
@not.tobeconfusedwith:
"Rule of thumb, the closer you are to that mountain the safer it is to run. And chomis you were faaaaaaarrr" (1,909 likes)
@fefekamagoba:
"Before you run in SA, check if the locals are running in that area. This is a high risk area." (1,679 likes)
@themvqueen:
"Problem is tourists come here and wanna be doing stuff that us locals would never. From running in craziest of places to hiking alone, you name it!!!" (1,054 likes)
@mightaswellbe:
"A lot of these comments are victim blaming. I’m sorry that happened to you. That must’ve been so scary." (952 likes)
@kendrajadehunn:
"Based off your video I don’t think you were running in the safest area 😔 I used to live there. Let me know if you need running route recommendations" (50 likes)
@tubba_blubba:
"For SA take a second cheap phone with none of your data on it. Only use it for pictures and Uber. Trust me on this" (33 likes)
Video and image: @elladymalla on TikTok.