Athol Fugard

Movies & TV Tsotsi: the Soweto gangster film that won South Africa its first Oscar Tsotsi, directed by Gavin Hood and based on Athol Fugard's novel, won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in March 2006. The story of a young Johannesburg gangster who finds a baby in a stolen car made Presley Chweneyagae a star.