Presley Chweneyagae, the South African actor who earned international acclaim for his role in the Oscar-winning film Tsotsi, the first South African movie to win an Oscar, has died. He was 40.

This Oscar-winning film, directed by Gavin Hood, stars Presley Chweneyagae as Tsotsi, a young Johannesburg crook, and his group of thugs who roam Johannesburg’s streets day and night, terrorising ...

Tsotsi opens with a beautiful, expansive shot of the skyline in a Johannesburg slum at sunset. Heat and tension hang as heavy as the smog in the air as the film transitions to a closed, stuffy room. A ...

JOHANNESBURG — Presley Chweneyagae, the South African actor who gained international recognition for his leading role in the 2005 film "Tsotsi", which won South Africa’s first ever Academy Award for ...

South African actor Presley Chweneyagae, star of the Oscar-winning South African film "Tsotsi", has died at the age of 40, his agent announced Tuesday. Chweneyagae gained international fame in 2006 ...

Athol Fugard, the Blood Knot, Master Harold… and the Boys and Tsotsi writer who is widely regarded as South Africa’s greatest ever playwright, has died. He was 92. According to AP, the South African ...

Presley Chweneyagae, the South African actor who gained international recognition for his leading role in the 2005 film "Tsotsi," which won South Africa’s first-ever Academy Award for best foreign ...