Bo-Tsotsi
The Youth Gangs of Soweto, 1935-1976
Clive Glaser, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
ISBN 978-0-325-00218-7 / 0-325-00218-5 / 2000 / 0pp / Paperback
Imprint: Heinemann
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Grade Level: College
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This book explores the style and values of youth gangs
in the Soweto area from the 1930s until the 1976
student-led uprising. It also tells the story of how the
ANC, PAC, and Black Consciousness movement tried, and
ultimately failed, to draw the volatile gangs into
disciplined political activity.
Contents:
Preface
"Being Manly": Themes in the History of Urban Youth Gangs
"Their Playgrounds Are the Streets":The Juvenile Delinquency Crisis on the Rand, 1935-1960
The Tsotsi Era: Youth Gangs on the Witwatersrand during the 1940s and 1950s
"Irresponsible Youths": Students, Tsotsis, and Africanists, 1944-1960
"Idle and Undesirable": Relocation, Gangs, and Youth Identity in Soweto during the 1960s
The Time of the Hazels: The New Wave of Big Gangs in Soweto, 1968-1976
"1976 Stopped All Our Fun": Soweto Gangs and the Rise of Student Politics, 1970-1976
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
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