South Africa judge robbed at gunpoint

Johannesburg: Gunmen robbed a judge of South Africa's highest court of a car and jewellery in an overnight attack at her house in Johannesburg's middle class suburb of Randburg, police said on Monday.

Justice Sisi Khampepe, a Constitutional Court judge in the crime-plagued country, was with her husband and daughter at the time of the raid, but they are all unharmed.

"The suspects pointed [at] them with firearms and tied them to their beds," police said in a statement.

The robbers "ransacked the house and stole jewellery, one laptop, two cell phones and fled the scene in the couple's black BMW 7 series."

Police later found the car abandoned in another part of the city.

Last year police registered 247,630 burglaries at residences countrywide, a slight drop from 256,577 in 2009-2010.