A top international television correspondent has told Eyewitness News how she was pushed, manhandled and groped by President Jacob Zuma's VIP guards.

Sky News correspondent Emma Hurd said she was pushed around when she tried to speak to Zuma during an election event in March last year.

Earlier this week, Eyewitness News online journalist Tshepo Lesole was forced by Zuma's guards to delete pictures he had taken of their cars.

Hurd was reporting on a rally last year, when Zuma's guard punched her microphone out of her hand, before she was grabbed and dragged away.

She said it was simply unacceptable.

"This was a public event, an election campaign. I am a journalist I was invited there," said Hurd.

Hurd said she laid a complaint with the African National Congress and was promised an investigation would be carried out but, as far as she knows, no action has been taken.