Police are searching for five robbers who held up a jewellery store in the Parkmeadow's Shopping Centre on Monday.

The men in balaclavas escaped with gold and diamond pieces valued at around R600 000.

Store Manager Johan van Zijl said, "What you can see on the surveillance cameras is that it was a dark Mercedes and apparently one of the robbers cut themselves on a piece of glass so police have a blood sample as well."