Novelist and poet Kgadime Matsepe is born

Kgadime Oliver (Phukubjane) Matsepe, Northern Sotho novelist and poet, is born in Magagamatala (Brakfontein or Mmitse), Groblersdal district. He was twice awarded the S.E. Mqhayi Prize by the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns (South African Academy for Arts and Science), namely for his work Kgorong ya Mosate (At the king's court) in 1964 and Meyokgo ya bjoko (Tears of the brain) in 1973. His father was a senior police sergeant and his grandfather was the chief Bloeu of the Kopa tribe. Matsepe's writing began in 1954 at Kilnerton institution where he wrote his first literary work Sebatakgomo. References Verwey, E.J. (ed)(1995). New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.1 , Pretoria: HSRC,