In an interview with News24, Angelina Youngman detailed her ordeal.
Three men, one of them armed, entered her house at a Sir Lowry's Pass security estate on Thursday.
"The man with the gun slowly walked towards me and put a gun to my face," she told News24.
"The nearest thing to me was the telephone directory so I grabbed it and hit the gun hand away from me. His hand moved but he didn't drop the gun. It was like a movie."
However, she was unable to fight the men off with the phonebook. The armed man hit her with the gun, but she hit and punched him back.
She said the shocked accomplices just stood by and watched the altercation.
