Modikwe Dikobe (pseudonym of Marks Rammitloa, 1913 – July 2005) was a South African novelist, poet, trade unionist and squatter leader in Johannesburg, in the 1940s.
He wrote one book and one collection of poetry, whilst working as a hawker, clerk, domestic servant and night watchman.
[3] He learnt to read and write, as well as being introduced to leftwing ideas, by the Communist Party’s Mayibuye night-schools in the 1930s.
[3] In the early 1940s, Dikobe began to organise tenants' movements and bus boycotts, alongside other people such as Schreiner Baduza and James Mpanza.
[3] Literary historian Tim Couzens, editor of Dikobe's volume of poetry, Dispossessed, states that "Dikobe is unique in South African literature because he has been until recently [...] the only substantial writer who is, while writing, fairly strongly working class.