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Khotso Nkhato, is a South African veteran literature icon of the written, stage and television productions, specializing in the indigenous Sesotho language creative art forms. He was born on 00 April? 1953, in the small town of Ventersburg, Free State province. In 2021, he received an honorary doctorate degree from the Central University of Technology, Free State province (CUT). The CUT continues to promote his legacy through the Dr Khotso Nkhato Annual Lectures. The Dr Khotso Nkhato Annual Lecture for the year 2023, focused on the Preservation and Celebration of Indigenous Languages as the Core of Societal Development, with keynote presentation by Dr Boitumelo Moreeng (Head of Department, School of Social Sciences and Languages, Faculty of Education, University of the Free State). Dr Nkhato is a qualified teacher, who is very well published in the Sesotho language. In 1988, Shuter and Shooter Publishers, agreed to flight his first work, a novella titled, Ke etse jwang ("What must I do"). Almost a decade later, an anthology of short stories titled, Dinyane la Tshepe, Sebalamakgulo ("Offspring of a Gazelle, analyzer of pastures") hit the bookstores shelves courtesy of Van Schaik Publishers, in 1996. Given the fact that television is a popular medium of consuming the arts across South African homes - despite his reserved and shy persona, he has received celebrity status since the early 1990s due to the rare genius he displayed by portraying a multiplicity of characters with near perfect believability in Mopheme, a drama series flighted on the SABC (South African Broadcasting Corporation). In Mopheme, through its repeat slots, to this day - he is still respected for embuing his multiple character roles with a genuine sense of reality, capturing the audience's attention through his trademark 'lessons to be learned' style of protagonist acting. His current commitments revolve around the Khotso Nkhato Foundation, which collaborates with communities to promote indigenous artistic formats and highlight essential cultural practices while developing frameworks through workshops to transform or remove oppressive cultural norms. His current residence is Mamahabane township, a municipal location of Ventersburg town.

Early Life (contents below still in a draft editing stage - 100% fictional/0% factual. Reputable editors/biographers are invited to upgrade these contents) Khotso is the first born son of Rantao Nkhato and Limaktso Nkhato, who both moved to Ventersburg in the 1920, and spent their working lives on the farm, Linkiesdrift. Schooling was not a priority option for farm workers' children - all the reason why parents had to choose which among their children will attend school while the others become farm work helpers.