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Born on the cusp of democracy, the crew of young friends in Born Freeloaders navigates a life of drinking, wild parties and other recklessness. The siblings at the centre of the novel, Nthabiseng and Xolani, have been raised in an upper middle-class family with connections to the political elite. Nthabiseng is lauded by her peers as she whimsically goes through life, unable to form her own identity in a world that expects her to pick a side in the fractured classifications of race. Xolani, not having known his late father, longs for acceptance from an uncle who sees him and his generation as the bitter fruit borne of a freedom he and countless others fought for.
As the story moves across multiple spaces in the nations capital over a weekend, Born Freeloaders captures a political and cultural moment in the citys and South Africas history. Interwoven is an analogous tale of the countrys colonisation and the consequences that follow. And alongside the friends uneasy awareness of their privilege is a heightened sense of discomfort at their inability to change the world they were born into.
