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A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Story of Forgiveness (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for A Human Being Died That NightAn 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 Sout
Full description- Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (Academic)
- Published: 01 August 2004
- Format: Paperback 208 pages
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- Categories: Biography: Historical, Political & Military | Political Oppression & Persecution | African History | Postwar 20th Century History, From C 1945 To C 2000
- ISBN 13: 9780618446599 ISBN 10: 0618446591
- Sales rank: 59,823
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Full description for A Human Being Died That Night
A Human Being Died That Night recounts an extraordinary dialogue. Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, a psychologist who grew up in a black South African township, reflects on her interviews with Eugene de Kock, the commanding officer of state-sanctioned death squads under apartheid. Gobodo-Madikizela met with de Kock in Pretoria's maximum-security prison, where he is serving a 212-year sentence for crimes against humanity. In profoundly arresting scenes, Gobodo-Madikizela conveys her struggle with contradictory internal impulses to hold him accountable and to forgive. Ultimately, as she allows us to witness de Kock's extraordinary awakening of conscience, she illuminates the ways in which the encounter compelled her to redefine the value of remorse and the limits of forgiveness.
