Diphete Bopape


Heniel Diphete D. Bopape 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 pioneered the detective novel genre in Sepedi.

Works

;Plays
;NovelsLenong la Gauta, Pretoria: Van Schaik, 1982Dikeledi, Pretoria: Van Schaik, 1985Rena Magomotša, Pretoria: De Jager-HAUM, 1987
;Short story collectionsBogobe bja Tswiitswii, Pretoria: De Jager-HAUM, 1985