FAR FROM the ghetto streets of Soweto, the South African drama “Tsotsi” resonates with a raw freshness and immediacy and an almost mythic sense of reclamation and redemption. The 2005 Oscar winner in ...

Far from the ghetto streets of Soweto, the South African drama “Tsotsi” resonates with a raw freshness and immediacy and an almost mythic sense of reclamation and redemption. Still basking in the ...

The movie “Tsotsi,” directed by Gavin Hood and based on the novel by Athol Fugard, is about a criminal’s redemption. It is about the transformation in a person and the faith that helped. “Tsotsi” was ...

Far from the ghetto streets of Soweto, the South African drama "Tsotsi" resonates with a raw freshness and immediacy and an almost mythic sense of reclamation and redemption. A foreign-language ...

Athol Fugard may have written his much acclaimed novel Tsotsi, 49 years ago and published it in 1980; it resonates with the current crime like robbery, murder and rape, the biting poverty, shuttered ...

Gavin Hood is a white South African who recalls being raised by a Zulu housekeeper and befriending her young son. But as boys grew older, they were separated. Because of apartheid and segregation, ...

For the 19-year-old man-child they call Tsotsi -- Johannesburg street slang for "thug" -- it has come down to this: He has burst into an apartment, pulled out a gun and forced the woman inside to ...

Presley Chweneyagae, who broke out in Oscar-winning South African movie Tsotsi, has died aged 40. Chweneyagae’s agent confirmed the news to AP and described him as one of South Africa’s “most gifted ...

A hardened young South African gang leader steals a woman's car -– then finds out her baby is in the back seat. So starts the South African film Tsotsi, which is up for an Academy Award for best ...

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