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.

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

Works

 * Plays
 * Makgale, Pretoria: Van Schaik, 1978 ISBN 9780627009815


 * 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 of Tswiitswii], Pretoria: De Jager-HAUM, 1985 ISBN 9780798615303