A marketplace, not a cleaning company.
Seker connects homeowners across the Cape Winelands and Northern Suburbs with vetted, independent local cleaning specialists. We don't employ the people who clean your couch — we screen them, publish fixed pricing, and stand behind the outcome.
Darryl Johannes
Seker was started by Darryl Johannes, who spent over a decade building and leading sales and client relations teams — including growing a client relations department more than threefold — before bringing that same focus on trust, structure, and doing right by the customer to specialty cleaning in the Cape Winelands and Northern Suburbs.
Outside of Seker, Darryl is a family man — married with two sons — a committed Christian, and a proud South African sports fan who never misses a Liverpool FC match.
What Seker actually is
Seker is a booking marketplace for specialty home cleaning — couches, mattresses, rugs, and carpets — serving Franschhoek, Stellenbosch, Paarl, Wellington, and the surrounding Cape Winelands and Northern Suburbs. Every job is carried out by an independent specialist who has been through our vetting process and operates their own small business or team. Seker isn't a labour broker and doesn't place staff in your home directly — we're the layer that makes finding, pricing, and paying for a trustworthy specialist simple.
That distinction matters because it explains how we make money and why our incentives line up with yours: we earn a small booking fee per job, so our interest is in every booking going well, not in maximising billable hours.
How we vet a Seker Partner
Before anyone is listed on Seker, they go through three checks, in this order:
Face-to-face meeting
We meet every prospective partner in person before they're listed — not a phone call, not a form.
Verified references
We contact past clients or employers directly to confirm the quality and reliability of their work.
Reputation check
We check for any public record of complaints before extending an offer to join Seker.
How pricing works
Every price on this site is fixed and published before you book — per seat, per mattress size, per rug size. There's no quote that changes once someone has seen your home, and no call-out fee. The only exception is wall-to-wall fitted carpet and leather upholstery, where room size and condition vary too much to fix one price in advance; for those we ask for a photo or a room size and confirm a price on WhatsApp before anything is booked.
How payment & booking works
When you book, your payment is held securely rather than paid directly to the Partner up front. It's released once the job is confirmed complete. If something isn't right, tell us within 48 hours and we'll arrange for the Partner to correct it at no extra cost wherever that's possible; if that doesn't resolve it, we'll look at a partial or full refund based on the facts of the case.
Where we operate
Seker currently serves homes, guest farms, and properties across the Cape Winelands and Northern Suburbs: Franschhoek , Stellenbosch , Paarl , Wellington , Kuils River , and Kraaifontein .