The Menlyn Maine shopping centre has not been declared safe following a bomb threat that was made on Tuesday morning.
Police spokesperson Captain Colette Weilbach said an unknown man believed to be in his 50s entered a bank at the shopping centre and handed a note over to the bank teller who assisted him.
“The note contained a threat to say that there was a bomb planted inside the bank,” she said.
“Security immediately reacted and evacuated the whole shopping centre.”
Weilbach said police responded and arrested the man inside the bank.
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“SAPS bomb disposal and K9 units were called out and are still on the scene to inspect a device that was found.”
“The shopping centre is not declared as safe yet.”
Weilbach said a firearm was also confiscated.
The man will be charged with contravention of the Explosives Act No 26 of 1956.
He will appear in the Hatfield Community Court soon.
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