Senkatana

Senkatana is a dramatisation of an old Basotho legend. The hero, Senkatana, kills a monster that is terrorising people, but is then killed by some of these people.

A tragic play adapted from Sotho folk narrative. The play is regarded as a classic of Sesotho literature. Seen as one of the greatest essayists and dramatists writing in Southern Sotho, Senkatana was S. Machabe Mofokeng's first book.Senkatana is a tragic play adapted from Sotho folk narrative. The play is regarded as a classic of Sesotho literature.

Seen as one of the greatest essayists and dramatists writing in Southern Sotho, Senkatana was Mofokeng's first book, published in 1952 in the African (then Bantu) Treasury Series, an Imprint of Witwatersrand University Press.