EFF statement on the murder and torching of Elvis Nyathi in Diepsloot
7 April 2022
The EFF is dismayed and saddened by the painful news, that one Elvis Nyathi was stoned and burnt to death in Diepsloot, Johannesburg in the early hours of this morning.
In tragic, disturbing and unsettling news, Nyathi was a victim of the indiscriminate door-to-door raids by a vigilante group that has gained prominence on the basis of targeting and othering African foreign nationals.
The painful images which are populating South African television screens today, are the ashes of what was once a human being, who was bumt alive simply because he could not provide a passport to individuals who have taken the law into their own hands.
Elvis Nyathi is a human being who has lost his life, because a group of people have enforced a dompass system in Johannesburg that has resulted in harassment, invasion of property, theft, assault and extortion.