English
Noun
Totsi Plural Totsies
#(South African) A gangster; a thug; a township skollie.
#*March 17, 2006 Cape Times article:
::I was also a tsotsi, Mandela tells Oscar-winning cast... Nelson Mandela - freedom fighter, former president, world leader, Nobel Peace Prize winner and ... tsotsi?
::The former president admitted to his shady past yesterday when he was entertaining the cast of Tsotsi, the Oscar-winning SA film about a gangster who finds his humanity. Mandela, standing up for all the tsotsis out there, said: "Don't dismiss any youngsters who are not behaving according to your wishes. It is better to talk to them, to say 'no, you have made a mistake here'.
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