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Diphete Bopape

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

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.

' (1982) pioneered the detective novel genre in Sepedi.

Works

Plays
  • ', Pretoria: Van Schaik, 1978
Novels
  • ' [A Golden Vulture], Pretoria: Van Schaik, 1982
  • ' [Tears], Pretoria: Van Schaik, 1985
  • ', Pretoria: De Jager-HAUM, 1987
Short story collections
  • ' [Porridge of Tswiitswii], Pretoria: De Jager-HAUM, 1985

References

Also Goitsemodimo Bopape