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Word: tsotsi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...allows his wife to take a temporary job as a domestic servant, and one night he stays with her in her quarters. The police break in and carry him off to jail as a trespasser. Home a few days later, Zachariah finds his wife dead-murdered by a tsotsi (gangster, Zulu style), who strangled her when she refused to lift her skirts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Camera in Johannesburg | 4/25/1960 | See Source »

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