num_pages: 232
description: 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.
language: English
title: Bo-Tsotsi: The Youth Gangs of Soweto, 1935-1976
titlecomplete: Bo-Tsotsi: The Youth Gangs of Soweto, 1935-1976
ratings_count: 3
publisher: Heinemann