Ntšeliseng 'Masechele Khaketla

Ntšeliseng 'Masechele Khaketla Listen^ⓘ (born 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 BA from the 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).

Khaketla also co-founded the first private school in Lesotho, Iketsetseng Primary School, and became the first woman to be appointed as a high court assessor.

Despite receiving little academic attention during her life, she is now regarded as one of the founding figures in Sesotho literature.