AtholFugard worked this way when he made Sizwe Bansi is Dead and The Island.
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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 AtholFugard.
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Tsotsi is based on a novel by AtholFugard who is better known for 20 astonishing plays that confronted apartheid on world stages for some three decades.