A Human Being Died That Night: Confronting Apartheid's Chief Killer
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| Rating | : | 4.99 (881 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1846270537 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, who worked as a psychologist with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa, assesses Eugene de Kok, former head of the apartheid regime's death squads. He discusses what it is to be human & asks what it means when we discover the incarnation of evil to be a human as we?
"A startlingly personal accountwritten with clarity, energy, and enormous empathy."
"Into the heart of darkness that is DeKock's world" according to T. Washington. When Pumla Gobodo-Madzikela returned to her South African homeland after the demise of apartheid and begun to work with the newly created Truth And Reconciliation Commission, interviewing Eugene "Prime Evil"De Kock, an convicted Afrikaner jailed for life for a string of murders of opponents of the white minority regime, the conversation between both, not just the crimes he committed, but the wider background, caused a good deal of soul searching on not just her part but I suspect on "Dikoko's"(as the black guards comically mispronounced his surname)part-on the nature of good and evil, nature and nurture.There are comic touches in t