title: Diphete Bopape
text: # 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
  