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The ANC's national executive committee has called on state security to analyse the mall attack in Nairobi, Kenya in order to protect the country.
ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe says the party's own security cluster was directed by the National Executive Committee to analyse the attack and work on the security of South Africa in liaison with relevant institutions in the continent and the world.
Mantashe was addressing reporters in Johannesburg on Sunday, after the ANC' NEC meeting over the weekend.
He said the attack highlighted the need for tighter immigration laws and processes, strengthening of the security features of the South African identity documents and monitoring the movement of people in general and suspicious movements in particular.
Al-Qaeda affiliated group Al-Shabaab has claimed responsibility for the attack at Nairobi's Westgate mall on September 21.
Attackers were at the mall for four days in a siege in which at least 67 people were killed.
