A Human Being Died That Night : A South African Story of Forgiveness – Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela

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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.
Brand New ! Softcover NB our book is slightly more expensive, we had to pay import costs, there seems to be no available copies right now in SA

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SKU: 9780618446599 Category: Title: A Human Being Died That Night : A South African Story of Forgiveness
Author: Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Year: 2021
ISBN10: 0618446591
ISBN13: 9780618446599
Condition: New
Format: Softcover
Inventory No: 1569

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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.
Brand New ! Softcover NB our book is slightly more expensive, we had to pay import costs, there seems to be no available copies right now in SA

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Weight 0.23 kg
Dimensions 20.3 × 13.28 × 1.9 cm

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