'Masechele Caroline Ntseliseng Khaketla
(1918-2012)
poet, dramatist, translator and teacher from Lesotho
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Ntšeliseng 'Masechele Khaketla (née Ntšeliseng Caroline Ramolahloane January 1, 1918 – August 16, 2012) was a pioneering Sesotho-language playwright, poet, short fiction writer, literary translator, and teacher from Lesotho. Khaketla achieved several notable firsts, including becoming the first Mosotho woman to earn a bachelor's degree when she graduated with a B.A. from University of Fort Hare (then South African Native College at Fort Hare) in 1940. The following decade, Khaketla became the third published female Sesotho-language creative writer and the first published female Sesotho-language playwright with the appearance of her play Mosali eo u 'neileng eena (1954).
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1918
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13 August 2012 (aged 94)
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