Blood On The Payslip

By Gudani C. Mudau

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GLLZXVS3
• ISBN13: 9798233876752
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Gudani C. Mudau
• Length: 78 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"