The Zimbabwean man who was killed after he was stoned and set on fire in a mob attack in Diepsloot township, Johannesburg last night has been identified by his family as Elvis Nyati.
“Reports that we’re getting from witnesses is that there’s a small group of people that went from door to door and then when they got to this house, this young man just ran out of the house and they chased him and unfortunately he was killed. As soon as the police got that information, they rushed to the scene but when they got there, the people had already been dispersed.”
“Reports that we’re getting from witnesses is that there’s a small group of people that went from door to door and then when they got to this house, this young man just ran out of the house and they chased him and unfortunately he was killed. As soon as the police got that information, they rushed to the scene but when they got there, the people had already been dispersed.”
They have barricaded roads with burning tyres. This after at least seven people were shot dead and 14 others wounded recently.
On Tuesday, community members went to the police station to hand over a memorandum in which they demanded more police visibility in the troubled township.
EFF has however expressed dismay that Elvis Nyati was stoned to death and burnt to ashes in Diepsloot, Johannesburg.
Family of the murdered Mhbodazwe Elvis Nyathi gathered to clean the bloodstains where the 43-year-old was beaten up with hammers and steel sticks and stones before setting him alight. Elvis burnt to death. The father of 4 was a gardener in Fourway