On arrival at the scene, members found a female aged 55-year-old lying in a pool of blood.
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A woman from the Free State was arrested after being accused of stabbing and killing her 55-year-old mother.
Bloemspruit police detained a 20-year-old woman after a fatal domestic altercation in Grassland.
South African Police Services (SAPS) spokesperson Sergeant Mahlomola Kareli said police were called to a house in Grassland on January 6 at about 7.10pm.
"On arrival at the scene, members found a female, aged 55-year-old, lying in a pool of blood. Emergency personnel were summoned to the scene and the elderly woman was declared dead at the scene," Kareli said.
Kareli further stated that the deceased was stabbed once in the chest by her daughter following a verbal confrontation.
The daughter was arrested and is scheduled to appear in Bloemfontein magistrate court soon for murder.
The circumstances that led to the stabbing will be probed.
In a similar case, Nolufefe Jongwana was sentenced to life in prison in November of 2023 for murdering her mother, Nomonde Jongwana.
Nomonde was killed on June 12, 2019.
Her co-accused hitmen, Masixolo Darke and Ntsikayomzi Mpentsheni, were also both sentenced to life in prison.
According to the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), Nomonde was found stabbed many times on her upper body at her leased home in Bambisana, where she worked as a teacher, in the Lusikisiki district.
"Police investigations led to the arrest of her daughter and her two accomplices on October 2, 2019, in Feni location. During the trial, the trio made confessions about their roles in the murder, admitting that Nolufefe hired the two men to kill her mother.
“She gave both men R1,500 for transport to travel to Lusikisiki from Peddie. She described her mother’s flat and how they could gain entry, and they chose to stab her, as shooting her would have raised alarm in the neighbourhood," said the NPA's Luxolo Tyali.
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