• PELONG YA KA, African Treasury Series no. 15

PELONG YA KA, African Treasury Series no. 15

: Mofokeng (S.)

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115pp., paperback, New Edition, Johannesburg, (1962) 2021

 

New introduction by Mpume Zondi, in both isiZulu and English.

Twenty essays and autobiographical writings in Sesotho.

Essayist and dramatist S. Machabe Mofokeng was born in 1923 in Fouriesburg in the Eastern Free State. In 1944 he was appointed as part-time Language Assistant in the Department of Bantu Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand and the following year became a full-time Junior Language Assistant. His stage play, Senkatana, and the volume of essays, Leetong: On pilgrimage, were published in 1952. In 1954 he became the first scholar in South Africa to receive a PhD in Sesotho from the University. He died from tuberculosis in 1957. Pelong Ya Ka was published posthumously.