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Given Rapula (born 06 June 1996), writing under the pen name: G. L. Rapula, is a South African contemporary romance novelist, a young producer and director, best known for writing his first novel titled Temptations. Was born in Swartklipe, a small town in Waterberg District Municipality in the Limpopo province of South Africa [2].

Background
At the age of eight, Rapula's parents moved with him and stayed in an enormous village called Moruleng, outside Rustenburg where he went to school and grew up. His father, Justin, is a mining employee at Impala Mine (Impala Platinum Holdings Limited is a multinational mining corporation based in South Africa that specialises in platinum group metals, as well as nickel, copper and cobalt). He does not have much to say about his mother, Rose, but he is very excited to announce that both his parents are still alive and have been together for thirty years.

= Career =

Given discovered his writing talent at the age of 19, where he had no idea of what it means to be a writer or storyteller. In 2015 he started sharing covers of popular books. Rapula was in grade twelve when he conceived the idea for Temptations while taking a bath in the morning, preparing for school in 2015. The four-year period that followed, Temptations was published, it was in 2018. The young Rapula grew up without love of books, and had no idea he will one day become an author. But today as an author, he writes stories that readers fall in love with. He has so much hope that his readers will take all his upcoming stories to their hearts just as they did Temptations.

Education
As a child, Given to Matuana Primary School, a public primary school. In 2014 there were 434 registered learners, including 52 Grade R learners. Years later, he attended secondary school in Ramono Middle School and went to Manamakgotha Commercial High School. Rapula also studied at North West University, Mafikeng Campus, where he read so widely romance books at the University library. He studied Journalism but has also distinguished myself in the field of literature. In 2016, Rapula tried to make a publishing deal with Jacana Media but was not accepted. Rapula recalls doing little work, preferring to be self published. After two years of study in North West University, Rapula published Temptations.

Temptations
Temptations is a firast novel of G. L. Rapula, featuring romance, a bit of religion and human drama. The book tells the story of a young lady who grew up with her twin sister, growing up without the presence of her parents; she was raised by a person whom she always believed it is her grandmother. Being raised by someone who is not a parent to her, made her an alcoholic, and lover of men. She takes pleasure on every man who crosses her path, but the love is not for them, it is for the money that they have. She quits varsity to focus her attention on man, often betray her sister for the love of money. But then, after the betrayal, she disappears from the country, and live far from home because she is ashamed to face her sister. Where she is hiding herself as a foreigner, life becomes difficult for her, but she does not prefer to go back home. She is only convinced to return home when she meets some people who knows the truth about her real parents, the most painful truth; when she goes home, she demands answers from her grandmother, who is not a real grandmother to her.

Rapula has spoken of his shock at the journey of the books. “The explosion of interest has taken me completely by surprise” he said, quoting E. L. James. He has described Temptations as a results of a call by his demons, “my demons tell me what to write, noting else inspires me to write. I can say writing is my calling.”

He started writing Temptations on August 2015 while in high school, and finished 2016 but had to continue working on it it as it was rejected by few publishers in South Africa, including Jacana Media. The good part is that after publishing the book, Rapula was approached by various publishers, including “Novum and Partridge publishers”, to republish his book with them because they see it as a “Hit”, he said. After Temptations was successfully published, he started writing the second book titled “The Enemy”

The Enemy is also work of fiction.

Synopsis: "The Enemy"
Synopsis: “King James Laurie is the leader of the Whiteman area. The territory he rules over is a small, landlocked Province in Southern East Africa, called Eastern Cape. In the Sub-republic of Eastern Cape, South Africa, all racial groups receding here are not allowed to practice exogamy. If they deviate, they will be hanged as a dissenter or sent to prison and die of hunger. But John Raphisons, one of the few coloured men in the area finds love with the King's daughter and is determined to find a way out.”