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A Human Being Died That Night

Forgiving Apartheid's Chief Killer

Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Granta Books

Published:1st Sep '06

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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.

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.

ISBN: 9781846270536

Dimensions: 198mm x 128mm x 16mm

Weight: 195g

208 pages