Athol Fugard worked this way when he made Sizwe Bansi is Dead and The Island.
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Fugard wrote Tsotsi as a very young man in 1960 at a time when blacks in South Africa were being forcibly resettled into townships.
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"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 Athol Fugard.
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