[1] Sekgala's photography was published in a book, Paradise (2014) and exhibited posthumously at the Hayward Gallery in London.
[2][3] He was raised by his grandmother in a settlement near Hammanskraal, in what was then the rural Bantustan (or "homeland") of KwaNdebele,[3] 40 km north of the city of Pretoria.
His photographs were, in the words of Hannah Abel-Hirsch writing in the British Journal of Photography, "united by their exploration of the notion of home, and the social, political, or economic conditions that may shape our relationship to it.
"[3] In 2012 Sekgala and Philippe Chancel "travelled to Magopa to investigate the problem of contemporary restitution of land in the so-called Black Spots, from which black South Africans were expelled under the apartheid-era “forced removals” programme".
[6] He committed suicide on 15 October 2014, aged 33, a few months after the death of his grandmother.