Articles for Pharie Sefali

Unpaid cleaners protest outside De Lille’s office

A few dozen Skyforce General Services employees picketed outside the Cape Town civic centre today, demanding to speak to Mayor Patricia de Lille about their salaries that have not been paid in full for months.

Pharie Sefali

News | 11 May 2015

Owners of company contracted by City abscond, leaving angry unpaid workers

Workers from Skyforce General Services company say they will picket today outside the Civic Centre to complain to Mayor Patricia de Lille that they have not been paid their full salaries for months.

Pharie Sefali

News | 11 May 2015

SANCO chairperson asks foreigners for protection money

Mthethwa Filita, chairperson of the South African National Civic Organisation in Mayibuye, Makhaza, has been asking for protection money from shops owned by foreign nationals.

Pharie Sefali

News | 7 May 2015

School mourns 13-year old who died running for a seat in school bus

More than 800 hundred students gathered today at Ngwenyathi High School in Gwiqi village outside Mdantsane to mourn 13 year old Lutho Felepu who died running for a school bus.

Pharie Sefali

News | 29 April 2015

A yard full of faeces

The City of Cape Town has put out a tender to solve among others things the temporary storage facilities for cleaning bucket toilets also known as porta potties.

Pharie Sefali

News | 24 April 2015

Residents demand clarity on R60 million Langa Junction complex

Management of the R60 million Langa Junction complex has promised to make information available to angry residents who have complained about a lack of transparency in the building and leasing of the 5,000 square metre space.

Pharie Sefali and Nombulelo Damba

News | 14 April 2015

Angolan reporter who exposed torture hauled into court

The defamation trial of Angolan journalist Rafael Marques de Morais, accused of libelling seven of the country’s military generals in a book he wrote, kicked off in Luanda on Tuesday. The generals are suing him for defamation – which could cost him $1.2-million in damages and nine years in prison -- after he had asked for them to be investigated for human rights abuses he first exposed in a book.

Pharie Sefali

News | 27 March 2015

Thanks to whistleblower, arrests imminent in massive housing fraud

The wheels of justice finally seem to be turning in relation to a huge suspected fraud in a housing scheme for the poor that is said to have cost the Vryburg municipality at least R60-million in 2008 and 2009.

Pharie Sefali and Drew Forrest for amaBhungane

Feature | 20 March 2015

Twenty-one deaths in 13 months at Glebelands Hostel

Four months after KwaZulu-Natal Premier Senzo Mchunu’s high-profile announcement of a peace deal and R10-million security plan at the violence-torn Glebelands hostel in Umlazi, Durban, two more hostel residents have been murdered.

Pharie Sefali

News | 13 March 2015