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Name
  
Diphete Bopape



Education
  
University of South Africa

Heniel Diphete D. Bopape (born 1957) is a South African novelist, playwright and journalist.

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Biography

Bopape was born in Transvaal Province, in what today is Limpopo. He graduated with a B.A. in Psychology from Unisa in 1987. At the time he was lecturing full-time at Dr. C.N. Phatudi College. He is the owner and editor of Seipone, a vernacular newspaper in Limpopo.

Lenong la Gauta (1982) pioneered the detective novel genre in Sepedi.

Works

Plays
  • Makgale, Pretoria: Van Schaik, 1978
  • Novels
  • Lenong la Gauta [A Golden Vulture], Pretoria: Van Schaik, 1982
  • Dikeledi [Tears], Pretoria: Van Schaik, 1985
  • Rena MagomotÅ¡a, Pretoria: De Jager-HAUM, 1987
  • Short story collections
  • Bogobe bja Tswiitswii [Porridge o fTswiitswii], Pretoria: De Jager-HAUM, 1985
  • References

    Diphete Bopape Wikipedia


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