Bo-tsotsi: The Youth Gangs of Soweto, 1935-1976Crime and the closely-related issues of youth culture and unemployment, are among the most important social concerns facing post-apartheid leadership in South Africa. This is a textured social history of African youth gangs in the Johannesburg/Soweto area from the emergence of a juvenile delinquency crisis in the 1930s through to the student-led uprising of 1976. |
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The Juvenile | 20 |
Youth Gangs on the Witwatersrand during | 47 |
Students Tsotsis | 78 |
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African Studies African youth Africanist Afrikaans Alexandra amalaita Apartheid April argued August Bantu Education Bantu World became Black Consciousness Black Consciousness movement Black Power Cape Town Carr central Congress crime criminal Diepkloof Dlamini Drum early Eleven Boys emerged employment gang culture gang members gang subculture gangsters Hazels Hellmann high school IAD WRAB identity influx control Insurrectionism Interview Jabavu JNEAD Johannesburg June juvenile delinquency Kambule Kane-Berman Kwaitos late Lebelo M.A. thesis Madipere Makgotla male Mashiloane HWSFP Mattera Mazibuko mbaqanga Meadowlands migrants Mofokeng Moloi Moroka Motjuwadi Mzimhlophe Naledi Native Ndala NEAD neighborhood Nkosi organization parents Pimville police political Pretoria Rand SAIRR SASM SASO school students Seathlolo secondary schools September social Sophiatown South Africa Sowetan Soweto Spoilers SSRC street youth style teenagers territorial township youth tsotsi gangs tsotsi subculture tsotsitaal unemployed urban African urban youth Viljoen Report violence Witwatersrand workers young youth gangs Zola