Oliver Kgadime Matsepe, Northern Sotho writer and poet dies in Tafelkop, Groblersdal district.

Oliver Kgadime(Phukubjane) Matsepe is a novelist and poet   who was twice awarded the S.E. Mqhayi Prize by the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns (South African Academy for Arts and Science). He was born in the Groblersdal District on 22  March 1932. He received his education in various mission schools in Northrern Transvaal (now Limpopo) and was ultimately baptized in the Lutheran church. For most of his adult life Matsepe worked as a clerk and interpreter for the Department of Bantu Administration and Development. A devout Christian, his religious beliefs were reflected in his books. Matsepe died on 4 October 1974. In the two years prior to his death, he had produced 5 novels and 4 volumes of poetry.