Police in Ficksburg in the Free State have arrested a 40-year-old woman from Meqheleng township in connection with the death of her two children.
On Wednesday the woman reported to the police that her children, a boy and a girl aged three and five, had died, allegedly after buying snacks from a local tuck shop.
This information was later discovered to be false and was allegedly made under oath, police spokesperson W/O Mmako Mophiring said.
