Africa-Press – South-Africa. The family of the late Elvis Nyathi want his killers to be brought to justice.
Nyathi is the Zimbabwean man who was brutally killed and set alight by an angry mob in Johannesburg’s Diepsloot last week.
He was attacked by a vigilante group looking for suspected criminals. He was beaten, stoned and set alight a metres from his home.
Speaking at his burial on Saturday in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe’s second-largest city, his uncle, Mpthathisi Ndlovu, said: “It is our wish to see the people, who did this, be apprehended. No person deserves to die the way Elvis did.”
Nyathi was given a state-assisted funeral; all expenses incurred were paid for by the government of Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe’s minister of state for provincial affairs in Bulawayo, Judith Ncube, speaking on behalf of President Emmerson Mnangagwa, said Nyathi’s death was a very painful experience for the country.
“As a country, we have been extremely hurt by what happened to Elvis,” she said.
She added that migration to South Africa is nothing new, which is why there’s no need to kill each other.
“Migration of Zimbabweans into South Africa is not a new thing. We had people moving to South Africa even before independence. It makes us wonder why some people are turning on fellow Africans, instead of talking through problems,” she said.
Nyathi’s burnt clothes were placed in his grave before it was closed.
He is survived by his wife and four children.
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