Modikwe Dikobe

Writer and poet
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IntroWriter and poet
PlacesSouth Africa
isActivist Poet Author Writer Trade unionist
Work fieldActivism Literature
Gender
Male
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Biography

Modikwe Dikobe (pseudonym of Marks Rammitloa, born 1913, Seabe, north-central Transvaal) was a novelist, poet, trade unionist and squatter leader in Johannesburg, South Africa in the 1940s. He worked as a hawker, clerk, domestic servant and night watchman.

Works

  • The Marabi Dance [novel] (1973)
  • The Dispossessed [poetry](1983)

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