APRNEWS - Sindisiwe Chikunga told a parliamentary committee that one of the masked attackers pointed a gun at her head during the ordeal early on Monday.

They stole some laptops, a phone and her bodyguards' weapons, she said. 

South Africa has long faced high crime levels, including car-hijackings, kidnappings and smash-and-grabs.

REUTERS - Shoppers were evacuated from the Mall of Africa, one of the largest malls in South Africa, set in middle-class suburbia between Johannesburg and Pretoria, as police searched for a bomb after receiving a threat, an officer said on Wednesday.