"Tsotsi, " in Afrikaans as well as urban dialects, with English subtitles, was adapted from the only novel thus far by the great South African playwright AtholFugard.
Tsotsi is based on a novel by AtholFugard who is better known for 20 astonishing plays that confronted apartheid on world stages for some three decades.
For example, AtholFugard, the internationally acclaimed Afrikaner playwright who wrote the Oscar-winning film Tsotsi and The Road to Mecca, a play about the local artist Helen Martins, found his muse in this scenic corner of the Karoo.