A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Story

Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, a South African psychologist who was appointed by Nelson Mandela to the Human Rights Violations Committee of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, recounts the gripping story of her encounter with Eugene de Kock - a man known as "Prime Evil" for his relentless pursuit and extermination of anti-apartheid activists. She argues that a victim who puts revenge aside can gain a more satisfying measure of power by becoming a "gatekeeper to what the outcast desires - readmission into the human community." Series: "Walter H. Capps Center Series" [5/2004] [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show ID: 8584]

Category:

Education

Tags:

• South
• Africa
• Truth
• and
• Reconciliation
• Commission
• apartheid

[sprtslvr1973]

The Police were no more ruthless than the ANC's military wing or Winnie's Football team

[xapplimatic]

The only way South Africans judged they could get the full truth was with the promise of amnesty to those who would come forward and tell what was judged to be the full and accurate truth of what happened to those who disappeared or were found killed on both sides of Apartheid. Were it not for the amnesty, for some, the truth of what happened to their loved ones would never be known, and would be forever a hole and a question mark upon the lives of the survivors who wanted to know the truth.

[kashaherum]

desperation and pain caused the survivors to,accept that sham reconciliation They were afraid of retaliation..However, what the RACIST boers, dutch amerikkNS BRITISH and other colonizers did from the 13th century until now is UNFORGIVABLE "AND the time to pay UP is near.

[faheemza]

@sprtslvr1973

don't believe everything you tell yourself... you create paradigms which imprison your consciousness forever.

find a publication by Sached titled "Now Everyone is Afraid".. check the photos of the medical examinations.

[DNkala]

Gobodo, there are things that we can forgive, but not what the likes of Eugene De Cock did. Life in prison isnt enough for those motherfuckers. They need to be burned alive slowly. I believe in Rachel's theory that punishment shud be propotionate to the crime. Restorative justice has limits. how do you apply restorative justice for systematic mass murder of defenceless poor black south africans. to hell with boers.

[geldenhuys1968]

Amazing that she sat on the TRC and blame apartheid and yet what is happening now in 2011 is far more brutal and violent then ever experienced before. Perhaps she should start to focus on the future and not the past as so many blacks always seem to play that card n ot only in South Africa but across the world.

[nataliedutoit24]

Sixty somthing died at Sharpville.. 50 die a day in s.a TODAY!! most of it due to violence...how is back then different to today in the ammount of south african lives lost?

[002Tchiputu]

This woman is both smart and sexy.

[saorscott]

free eugene de kock

[YEELKEED]

Sprtslvr, said by a racist white man. South Africans have not forgiven what has happened and the crimes committed by white people, is not forgiven in the eyes of God. To brutalise someone and then simply say sorry, I did not mean to is rubbish. You reap what you sow, and if you have blood on your hand you pay that crime some way and somehow.

White people you can not steal someone else's land and expect the people not to come after their land.

[wenithboy]

this is bullshit, from the anc and mandela and he is trying to put a bandaid on a festuring injury. the PAC was right