At this point, the novel stops calling Tsotsi “Tsotsi” and starts calling him “David,” indicating that he has completed his transformation, freeing himself from the gang member stereotype and reclaiming his individual identity. That the white township has insisted on re-razing the ruins where David has hidden his baby, however, indicates that the white supremacist social structure is once again threatening to destroy David’s family. David dies in a Christlike, self-sacrificing manner trying to save the baby—which fulfills the foreshadowing implicit in Boston singing “Gentle Jesus, meek and mild” and in Isaiah’s discussion of the Crucifixion. Yet, although the novel does not explicitly state that the baby dies, it seems likely that the wall that killed David also crushed the baby. Thus, the novel’s ending suggests that while religion can cause positive individual transformations, it cannot cure structural evils like apartheid or white supremacy. David’s “beautiful” smile after death, then, may be a sincere sign of his redemption or an ironic comment on his powerlessness.