BORN FREELOADERS, a novel

198pp., illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2019.

A novel that takes place over a weekend in Johannesburg, about a group of young friends navigating a life of drinking and partying as they struggle to come to terms with their privilege, identity and race issues, and the longing for acceptance.

"Born Freeloaders is an excoriating look at the impotence of youth and millennial privilege. Pikoli is an urgent new voice in South African fiction." Efemia Chela, Zambian-Ghanaian literary critic, editor and writer

Phumlani Pikoli was born in Zimbabwe in 1988.  His collection of short stories, The Fatuous state of Severity was first published in 2016. He died in 2021.