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A searing excavation of dignity in the machinery of modern exploitation. In the shadow of Johannesburg's factories, Sipho Mbatha trades his health for peanuts, his future for tomorrow's bread. When a ""disciplinary hearing"" turns into a life sentence of debt, he is forced to become a forensic accountant of his own destruction. Blood on a Payslip walks the razor's edge between novel and documentary, charting the brutal mathematics of poverty: how a man's breath, his time, and his love are converted into numbers on a stained piece of paper and how, in one defiant act of testimony, those numbers can be made to scream.

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Gudani C. Mudau's storytelling journey started in a small village in the evenings as he kept himself warm by the fire rather than in a bustling metropolis or a corporate office. His late grandmother, a talented storyteller whose voice could take young minds to faraway places and captivating adventures, taught him the true art of storytelling there, in the glow of the cinders. Her legacy greatly influenced his conviction that sharing one's voice is important and powerful, even though her amazing tales were never shared with the outside world and instead lived on in the hearts of those who heard them. Gudani is ready to unfurl these creative tapestries, and is driven by the strong influence of a grandmother who inspired a love of story telling. What he does here is to draw his readers into his worlds where he puts them in a position to feel the emotions and to get lost in the magic only a great storyteller can express. To him, it is of great necessity to share such stories with the world, unlike the kind that remained at the fireside.

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