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His novel, Tsotsi, was made into a film, winning the 2006 Oscar for best foreign language movie.

South Africa would win the Oscar the following year for Gavin Hood’s “Tsotsi.”

“Ten years ago I paid compensation. I wasn’t even a relative of the man who committed the murder, but I paid. Goré Mtoko’s father demanded ten cattle, one for each of the fingers on his son’s hands. Such a price for a tsotsi whose only skill was to prop open a door!”

“I found Katharine’s story fascinating,” says director Gavin Hood, known for the Helen Mirren thriller Eye in the Sky and the acclaimed South African crime drama Tsotsi.

Adding to the intrigue, Zola Tsotsi, an ANC member who resigned last year as head of the state-owned electricity company, told a local newspaper that his departure was orchestrated by the Guptas.