Atwell Sidwell Mopeli-Paulus (born 1913) was a

Lesotho Lesotho ( ), officially the Kingdom of Lesotho, is a country landlocked country, landlocked as an Enclave and exclave, enclave in South Africa. It is situated in the Maloti Mountains and contains the Thabana Ntlenyana, highest mountains in Sou ...

author. He lived most of his life in South Africa, and wrote both in Sesotho and in English. He is most known for his novels ''Ho tsamaea ke ho bona'' (''To Travel Is to Learn'', 1945), which among other things deals with his time as a soldier in World War II, ''Blanket Boy's Moon'' (1953) and ''Turn to the Dark'' (1956). His death is often referred to as having occurred in 1960, probably because publishers have sought to obtain the copyright to his works. He was still alive and living in QwaQwa in the mid-1990s. The first complete edition of his memoir, from childhood to the

Witzieshoek revolt The Witzieshoek revolt was a rebellion of Basotho residents in Witzieshoek in the Orange Free State of South Africa during the mid 20th century. It arose as a result of South African government interventions into the traditional farming practices ...

, The World and the Cattle, was published in 2008.

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* Lesotho novelists Lesotho male writers South African male novelists South African Sotho people University of the Witwatersrand alumni 1913 births 1960 deaths 20th-century South African novelists 20th-century South African male writers Sotho-language writers Lesotho expatriates in South Africa {{Lesotho-writer-stub