OPINION | Misguided notion of illegal immigrants rooted in colonialism, racism

The death of Elvis Nyathi in Diepsloot in April is not only a tragedy of a people captured and confined in an Orwellian type of Animal Farm, but is a clear consequence of the persistence of racist colonialist concepts. Nyathi, like other “foreigners” before him, was burnt to death by vigilante delinquents who believed he was an “illegal immigrant” who had no right to life and human dignity.