This is the face of NOMPILISO YEKELA, a low-level official in the Eastern Cape Premier's office. But in her other life Yekela is one of King William's Town's major slumlords.
She makes over R80 000 each month packing dozens of people into her six suburban properties, breaking scores of local by-laws - and in the process destroying the fabric of entire neighbourhoods. 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.