TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gobodo-Madikizela,Pumla
TI  - A human being died that night: a South African story of forgiveness 
SN  - 0618211896
U1  - 363.2/092 23
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Houghton Mifflin
KW  - Police
KW  - South Africa
KW  - Biography
KW  - Reconciliation
KW  - Political aspects
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-176) and index (pages 183-193); Scenes from apartheid -- An encounter with apartheid's crusader -- The trigger hand -- The evolution of evil -- The language of trauma -- Apartheid of the mind -- "I have no hatred in my heart" -- Appendix: A short history of apartheid
N2  - "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"--Publisher's description; "Gobodo-Madikizela's journey with de Kock, during which she allows us to witness the extraordinary awakening of his remorse, brings us to one of the great questions of our time: What does it mean when we discover that the incarnation of evil is as frighteningly human as we are?"--Jacket
ER  -