SA's 'Afrillennials' torn between 'ubuntu tax' and living it up like Kardashians
21 June 2015 - 02:04
Black South African graduates dream of having a career, a car and a house with a picket fence. But some of these dreams are being stifled because they feel obliged to pay "ubuntu tax" to their parents by helping them financially in exchange for having received a university education."We've become our parents' pension plan," said a black student from the University of Cape Town who took part in one of the first studies into South Africa's millennials, a cohort also known as Generation Y.
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