He said police had been informed of a case of abduction in Braamfischerville at the weekend‚ which had also turned out to be false.
“When the police arrived at the scene‚ there were two funerals in the area and the report turned out to be false‚” Lifhugu said.
When TimesLIVE visited the townhouse complex in Ridgeway‚ where the latest video was filmed‚ the unit was empty.
One of the trustees at the complex‚ Barbara Archari‚ said they did not know about children being kept at one of the units.
She said there had been an incident on Sunday that had happened outside the complex‚ where Ethiopian men had been involved in a physical fight with coloured men.
“There was no child that was kidnapped from the complex. We did alert the Booysens SAPS to come in and the matter is currently under investigation‚” Archari said.