Articles for Pharie Sefali
Khayelitsha Development Forum boycotts policing inquiry
The Khayelitsha Development Forum (KDF) says there is no need for the Khayelitsha Commission of Inquiry into policing.
Pharie Sefali
News | 20 November 2013
Parents take out loans for matric dances
Parents every year complain about the demands grade 12 learners have for their end of the year matric dances.
Pharie Sefali
News | 13 November 2013
School was key to Mandla Khusela escaping poverty
Mandla Khusela was born in Guguletu and grew up in Langa.
Pharie Sefali
News | 29 October 2013
Khayelitsha turns 30
Khayelitsha is officially turning 30. Plans to build Khayelitsha were announced by the notorious Minister of Co-operation and Development, Dr Piet Koornhof, in 1983. By 1985, the suburb Site C had 30,000 people. *
Pharie Sefali and GroundUp staff
News | 16 October 2013
UWC students celebrate gay rights
On Monday student organisations at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) launched an awareness week called "From the same soil."
Pharie Sefali
News | 16 October 2013
How to become a murderer in Nyanga
Sipho [name changed] is 18 years old and a hardened gangster. He has lived his whole life in Nyanga, the Cape Town township with the highest rate of murder in the country.
Pharie Sefali
News | 22 September 2013
Snapshot of poverty in Cape Town
Mrs Nowelile Nonkelela stays in a one-room flat with her seven children and three grandsons. The family stays in Old Flats, Langa. Their room is situated in block C on the second floor where there are 20 such rooms.
Pharie Sefali
News | 18 September 2013
Gang violence, not just Manenberg
Township residents are complaining that murders in the townships are not being taken seriously with media and political attention focusing on the Cape Flats.
Pharie Sefali
News | 18 September 2013
Taxi associations fight over routes
Two taxi drivers from the Delft Taxi Association were shot dead during the course of last week in a shooting spree between taxi drivers from Delft, Nyanga and Khayelitsha over ownership of certain routes.
Pharie Sefali
News | 11 September 2013