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Thomas Mogotlane portrays the life of a South African street thug with aplomb. The life style of this Pantsula on the screen is what you would have found in the Township Streets in that era.
I believe Mapantsula is one of the best movies about the struggle against oppression ever made (almost up there with Satyajit Ray's Distant Thunder, Puenzo's Official Story, and Beresford's Breaker Morant in my book). Like these other films, it beautifully and powerfully focuses on the impact of government violence on the lives of characters who are, at first, unaware of the larger forces which have been shaping their lives.
