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.
Les mer
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.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781846270536
Publisert
2006-09-01
Utgiver
Granta Books; Granta Books
Vekt
195 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
128 mm
Dybde
16 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
208

Om bidragsyterne

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.