Human Being Died That Night Forgiving Apartheid's Chief Killer
Heftet /
2006
/ Engelsk
Product details
ISBN
9781846270536
Published
2006-09-01
Publisher
Granta Books; Granta Books
Weight
195 gr
Height
198 mm
Width
128 mm
Thickness
16 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
208
Author
Biographical note
Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela was born in Langa Township in Cape Town. As a clinical psychologist, she served with Archbishop Desmond Tutu on South Africa's Truth & Reconciliation Commission between 1996 and 1998.She is now a professor of psychology at the University of Cape Town and lectures internationally on issues of reconciliation and forgiveness.
While working for South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Committee, Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela interviewed former police colonel Eugene De Cock, who commanded a unit believed to have killed a number of anti-apartheid activists. De Cock was charged with, among other crimes against humanity, six murders and sentenced to 212 years in prison. A Human Being Died That Night is about the complexities of post-apartheid South Africa and sees a white man exploring his psyche with a member of the race he tried to annihilate.
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An insight into the complexities of post-apartheid South Africa that sees a former police colonel exploring his psyche with a member of the race he tried to annihilate.
An insight into the complexities of post-apartheid South Africa that sees a former police colonel exploring his psyche with a member of the race he tried to annihilate.
Product details
ISBN
9781846270536
Published
2006-09-01
Publisher
Granta Books; Granta Books
Weight
195 gr
Height
198 mm
Width
128 mm
Thickness
16 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
208
Author