Diphete Bopape

Heniel Diphete D. Bopape (born 1957) is a South African novelist, playwright and journalist.

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.

Plays

• Makgale, Pretoria: Van Schaik, 1978

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 o fTswiitswii], Pretoria: De Jager-HAUM, 1985