The whole point is that it represents both. The name of the movie being based on an actual district which evicted everyone to create a whites only neighborhood during apartheid (district 6) and the film being filmed at locations that recently experienced xenophobic violence and forced evictions at the time is no coincidence. The whole point is that you can replace "prawn" in the dialogue with that of any oppressed peoples, to understand what is going on.
The whole point is that it represents both. The name of the movie being based on an actual district which evicted everyone to create a whites only neighborhood during apartheid (district 6) and the film being filmed at locations that recently experienced xenophobic violence and forced evictions at the time is no coincidence. The whole point is that you can replace "prawn" in the dialogue with that of any oppressed peoples, to understand what is going on.