A. S. Mopeli-Paulus and Peter Lanham

Atwell Sidwell Mopeli-Paulus was born on 15 January 1913 in Monontsha, in the Witzieshoek reserve, a direct descendant of Moshoeshoe I, and inherited the chieftaincy from his father. Trained at Edendale teacher training college and at the University of the Witwatersrand, he served during the Second World War in Egypt, Abyssinia and Kenya, then worked in a law firm in Johannesburg. Caught up in the Witzieshoek revolt, he was imprisoned. He wrote in Sesotho and in English, and died in 1994.

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