Man living in prison searches for his true identity

Matthews English has now been a resident of the Centre for Illegal Immigrants for three years and has been trying to push the state to help with DNA tests to show that this woman is indeed his mother. English claims that he is the son of a woman named Nomathemba English,who is actually a royal wife in a village called Kgari in the North East District.

English wrote to the Clerk of court in August last year requesting the state to help him with the means to carry out the DNA test. "As from the time of my detention I have no means of how I can find the money to do the DNA test since I was put into the Centre for Illegal Immigrants, a place where illegal immigrants are bound," he stated in the letter.In the same letter he wrote that he had no way of rescuing himself because he could not find money to conduct the DNA test for himself and the respondent.