A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Woman Confronts the Legacy of Apartheid

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A Human Being Died That Night recounts an abnormal 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 underneath apartheid. Gobodo-Madikizela met with de Kock in Pretoria’s maximum-security prison, where he’s serving a 212-year sentence for crimes against humanity. In profoundly arresting scenes, Gobodo-Madikizela conveys her struggle with contradictory internal impulses to carry him accountable and to forgive. In the long run, as she permits us to witness de Kock’s abnormal awakening of moral sense, she illuminates the ways by which the encounter compelled her to redefine the price of remorse and the bounds of forgiveness.
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