Diphete Bopape’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro South African writer
Is Journalist 
From South Africa 
Type Journalism 
Gender male

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.

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 Magomotša, Pretoria: De Jager-HAUM, 1987
Short story collections
  • Bogobe bja Tswiitswii [Porridge o fTswiitswii], Pretoria: De Jager-HAUM, 1985
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