CAPE TOWN, May 20 (Xinhua) -- The following are news highlights in South African major news outlets on Monday.

-- South Africans allegedly may be among the 17 people injured in an explosion which struck a tourist bus near Egypt's famed pyramid on Sunday.

"Initial media reports suggest that South Africans might be among the injured," the South African Department of International Relations and Cooperation said. (News24)

-- The South African Communist Party (SACP) on Sunday denounced what it believed was an attack by the South African Jewish Board of Deputies and Zionist Federation on International Relations and Cooperation Minister Lindiwe Sisulu.

This follows an article by the Daily Maverick on Friday which quoted the board's vice-president Zev Krengel as saying that Sisulu was a threat to the Jewish community in South Africa. (Eyewitness News)

-- The South African Embassy in Egypt is currently working with emergency officials in an attempt to find out if any South Africans were involved in a bus explosion near Cairo.

A tourist bus exploded on route to the Giza pyramids on Sunday, injuring 17 people. (South African Broadcasting Corporation) Enditem

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