When she leaves her formal employment in Bhisho every afternoon, Yekela sets up her "other" office, pretending to be a street vendor outside a clothing store in King William's Town where she does her deals with tenants. She crams up to 20 tenants into homes designed for single families. charging them up to R2000 a month for a squalid room. For two months, reporter GCINA NTSALUBA went undercover and lived in one of these homes.

He lived and spoke to tenants and interviewed distressed neigbours who have seen their property prices plummet. Ntsaluba also spoke to authorities about the illegal practice - and finally, he confronted Yekela herself. This story shows the damage ONE slumlord can make as they turn our once-respectable neighbourhoods into ghettos.

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