Nape 'a Motana (born 1945)[1] is a Pretoria-based South African writer, known for the novel Fanie Fourie's Lobola (University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2007), which was subsequently made into a film of the same name.
He authored Sepedi Proverbs, illustrated by Garth Erasmus and published in 2004, and the young adult novel Hamba Sugar Daddy (Jacana Media, 2016).
[2] His other novels are Son-in-law of the Boere (2010), Rabeka's Dream (2015) and Babatunde’s Heroic Journey (2018).
[3] He is married to Sibongile with whom he has two daughters, Mmasello and Thabang, and two sons, Ramaswaile and Bafana-Bafana.
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