A Human Being Died that Night: A South African Woman Confronts the Legacy of ApartheidAn acutely nuanced and original study of a state-sanctioned mass murderer. Not since Dead Man Walking have we seen so provocative a first-person encounter with the human face of evil. Eugene de Kock, the commanding officer of state-sanctioned apartheid death squads, is currently serving 212 years in jail for crimes against humanity. Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, who grew up in a black township in South Africa, served as a psychologist on that country's great national experiment in healing, the Truth and Reconcilation Commission. As this book opens, in an act of inescapable, multilayered symbolism and extraordinary psychological courage, Gobodo-Madikizela enters Pretoria's maximum security prison to meet the man called Prime Evil. What follows is a journey into what it means to be human. |
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A Human Being Died That Night: Forgiving Apartheid's Chief Killer Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela No preview available - 2013 |
A Human Being Died that Night: Forgiving Apartheid's Chief Killer Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela No preview available - 2006 |