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Definition of Tsotsis
1. tsotsi [n] - See also: tsotsi
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tsotsis
Literary usage of Tsotsis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Much Bigger Than Grownups: Chronicles of a Native South Africanby Shelley Wood Gauld by Shelley Wood Gauld (2006)
"Would they point out that many urban tsotsis are the volatile ... Would those
martyrs also scold lawless opportunistic tsotsis for taking the easy ..."
2. Violence Against Women in South Africa: The State Response to Domestic by Binaifer Nowrojee, Bronwen Manby, Human Rights Watch/Africa (1995)
"These women are constantly subjected to attacks by young thugs, known as tsotsis,
who rob and rape the women. Women reportedly take rums sleeping at the end ..."
3. The Theatre of Violence: Narratives of Protagonists in the South African by Don Foster, Paul Haupt, Maresa de Beer (2005)
"The'comrade' identity became superfluous under changed conditions and the
marginalised youth became merely 'tsotsis' (gangsters) involved now ..."
4. Shifting Understandings of Skills in South Africa: Overcoming the Historical by Simon A. McGrath, Human Sciences Research Council (2005)
"... 'tsotsis' and so on, to indicate the availability of secondary literature that
explains and indicates different understanding of the terms (for example, ..."
5. Voices of Liberation by Ruth First, Don Pinnock (1997)
"tsotsis? Most likely, for Alexandra Township swarms with young Africans whose
dead-end future has swept them into petty gangsterism. ..."
6. Women in South African History: Basus'iimbokodo, Bawel'imilambo / They by Nomboniso Gasa (2008)
"15 For a fascinating discussion of how the disruptive, at times brutal and violent
methods of the 'com-tsotsis' were subsequently marginalised in the ..."
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