The Ones with Purpose

"This one is really brilliant. It’s by Nozizwe Jele, a South African writer from KwaZulu-Natal. It’s about grief and how these things always just find their way in. It’s about a middle-class family grieving a sister who has died from breast cancer. The book also touches on this very interesting topic that we’re dealing with now…Well, I don’t know if we’re dealing with it, but it’s called ‘black tax’. Have you heard of it? So post-apartheid, I’m the first person to go to university in my family. Because of that, I then need to take care of people at home and help them come up as well. So it touches on that. I wouldn’t say it’s new—black tax probably was there in the past, but it was called something else; you were celebrated for giving back. But now people are questioning it. Is there a way to get out of this? So that’s making it into fiction now."