Modikwe Dikobe

Modikwe Dikobe (pseudonym of Marks Rammitloa, born 1913) was a novelist, poet, trade unionist and squatter leader in Johannesburg, South Africa in the 1940s. He was born in Seabe, north-central Transvaal. He worked as a hawker, clerk, domestic servant and night watchman.[1]

Works

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

References

Further reading

  • Bonner, P. "The Politics of Black Squatter Movements on the Rand, 1944–1952", Radical History Review, 1990.
  • "The bard of township culture", Mark Gevisser, Mail & Guardian, 1995.


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