“Tsotsi” transports its audience so quickly from horrific murder to bemusing baby antics that the price of a ticket should include a whiplash brace. Because the South African import – and this year’s ...

The co-president of The Little Film Company worked on titles including 'Waking Ned Devine,' 'An American Haunting' and 'Before Night Falls.' By Katie Kilkenny, Alex Ritman Tsotsi executive producer ...

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 ...

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. (AP ...

Presley Chweneyagae, the South African actor who earned international acclaim for his role in the Oscar-winning film Tsotsi, the first South African movie to win an Oscar, has died. He was 40.

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 ...

Presley Chweneyagae, who drew widespread acclaim as the young star of “Tsotsi” (2005), a slum-set drama that won South Africa’s first Academy Award for best foreign-language film, died May 27 at his ...

Chweneyagae also starred in the popular television drama 'The River.' By Abid Rahman International Editor, Digital Presley Chweneyagae, the South African actor who came to international prominence as ...

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 ...

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 ...