Modikwe Dikobe

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

Works

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

References

1. South Africa’s mineral and industrial revolution

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.