Awards were presented today at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival, with Gavin Hood‘s “Tsotsi” winning the event’s People’s Choice Award voted by attendees of the festival ...

Tsotsi means “thug” in Soweto’s mixed African dialect. Tsotsi and his small gang silently murder a wealthy commuter on a packed train, in a scene of literally unspeakable violence.

Tsotsi responds the only way he knows how, with rage. He viciously beats Boston, then sensing the repugnance of the other bar patrons and even the members of his gang, Tsotsi flees.

"Tsotsi," by contrast, stars South African Presley Chweneyagae, who previously only acted in community theater and school plays. Most of the movie is in street-gang slang called tsotsi-taal.

Presley Chweneyagae, the South African actor who gained international recognition for his leading role in the 2005 film Tsotsi,has died. He was 40 years old. Chweneyagae’s three-decade long ...

Tsotsi is a cold-blooded thug, until he shoots a mother and takes her baby. Then the story becomes -- depending on your view -- either an uplifting story of emotional redemption and rebirth or a ...

Zola Tsotsi’s showdown with the Eskom board on Monday night ended with a whimper, not a bang. The meeting was held to give the Eskom chairperson the opportunity to explain why he should not be ...

Although that boost hasn't been reflected in the number of South African feature films competing for Fespaco's top prize, the Yennenga Stallion. Tsotsi is one of two in the running, down from four in ...

Tsotsi executive producer and The Little Company co-president Robbie Little has died. Little was in London on his way to the Cannes Film Festival at the time; the cause of death has not yet been ...

FILE - Director Gavin Hood, left, and actor Presley Chweneyagae from the best foreign language film "Tsotsi" from South Africa, arrive for the 78th Academy Awards on March 5, 2006, in Los Angeles.