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"Eugene de Kock, the commanding officer of state-sanctioned apartheid death squads, is currently serving a 212-year sentence 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 Reconciliation 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, Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
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- Released
- 2003
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- Title
- A Human Being Died that Night
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Released
- 2003
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN10
- 0618211896
- ISBN13
- 9780618211890
- Series
- Categories
- Rating
- 4.15 out of 5
- Description
- "Eugene de Kock, the commanding officer of state-sanctioned apartheid death squads, is currently serving a 212-year sentence 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 Reconciliation 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."