Tag: Issue: 2006-04-19

In his autobiography Long Walk to Freedom, Nelson Mandela describes the tsotsis, or thugs, that terrorized the populace of the black townships of his youth. “Life was cheap; the gun and the knife ruled at night. Gangsters–known as tsotsis–carrying flick-knives or switchblades were plentiful and prominent; in those days they emulated American movie stars and […]