Given Rapula, writing under the pen name: G. L. Rapula, is a South African contemporary romance novelist and a graphic designer, best known for writing his first novel titled Temptations. Was born in Swartklipe, a small town in Waterberg District Municipality in the Limpopo province of South Africa.

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At the age of eight, Rapula's parents moved with him and stayed in an enormous village called Moruleng, outside Rustenburg where he went to school and grew up.

Rapula was in grade twelve when he conceived the idea for Temptations while taking a bath in the morning, preparing for school in 2015. The four-year period that followed, Temptations was published, it was in 2018.

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His father, Justin, is a mining employee at Impala Mine (Impala Platinum Holdings Limited is a multinational mining corporation based in South Africa that specialises in platinum group metals, as well as nickel, copper and cobalt). He does not have much to say about his mother, Rose, but he is very excited to announce that both his parents are still alive and have been together for thirty years.

The young Rapula grew up without love of books, and had no idea he will one day become an author. But today as an author, he writes stories that readers fall in love with. He has so much hope that his readers will take all his upcoming stories to their hearts just as they did Temptations.

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Rapula studied at North West University, Mafikeng Campus, where he read so widely romance books at the University library. He studied Journalism but has also distinguished myself in the field of literature.