Elvis Nyathi who was stoned and burnt to death by vigilantes in Diesploot, South Africa has been buried at Umvutsha Cemetery today.

The memorial service was held at Brethren In Christ Church in the New Lobengula suburb.

The government granted him a state-assisted funeral while South Africa based funeral insurance company Zororo-Pumulani pledged to repatriate his body at no cost.

Nyathi worked in Fourways, a Johannesburg Metropolitan suburb as a gardener twice a week where he was making R200 a day.