Black Tax: Burden or Ubuntu?

Edited by: Niq Mhlongo. Edited by novelist Niq Mhlongo, this essay anthology gathers diverse South African voices on "black tax" — the financial support many Black South Africans provide to family members, often from early adulthood. Contributors, chosen for a range of ages, genders and backgrounds, debate whether the practice is a burden or an expression of ubuntu, tracing its roots to apartheid-era engineered poverty and its ongoing role as a form of informal, community-level income redistribution.