Pumla gobodo-madikizela eugene de kock biography

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    Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela

    South African academic (born 1955)

    Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela

    Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela in 2011

    BornPumla Phillipa Gobodo
    (1955-02-15) 15 February 1955 (age 69)

    Langa, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

    AwardsAlan Paton AwardOfficial website
    Main interestsTraumatic Memories, Post-conflict reconciliation, empathy, forgiveness, psychoanalysis and Intersubjectivity
    Notable ideasEmpathic Repair; Making Public Spaces Intimate

    Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela (born 15 February 1955) is the Research Chair in Studies in Historical Trauma and Transformation at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. She graduated from Fort Hare University with a bachelor's degree and an Honours degree in psychology. She obtained her master's degree in Clinical Psychology at Rhodes University. She received her PhD in psychology from the University of Cape Town. Her doctoral thesis, entitled "Legacies of violence: An in-depth analysis of two c

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    Eugene de Kock: Profile of an apartheid assassin

    He appeared before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which was set up by Mr Mandela and chaired by Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

    At the TRC, De Kock confessed to crimes against humanity.

    His revelations shocked South Africans and revealed the length and brutal techniques the apartheid regime was prepared to take to stay in power.

    He was granted amnesty for many of the crimes committed in defence of a racial segregation system.

    But he was sentenced to 212 years plus two life terms for the murders and crimes he committed which the commission felt went beyond the call of duty.

    While serving time in Pretoria's C-Max prison, De Kock conducted a radio interview in which he described the last apartheid leader FW de Klerk as man whose hands were "soaked in blood."

    Mr De Klerk, who shared the Noble Peace Prize with Mr Mandela for ending apartheid, denied the allegations.

    South African psychologist Pumla Gobodo-Madikize

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    A Human Being Died that Night: Forgiving Apartheid's ledare Killer

    When Eugene de Kock, commanding officer of the apartheid death squads, was sentenced to 212 years for crimes against humanity, the black South Africans outside Pretoria's Supreme Court cheered and danced: the killer who had been nicknamed 'Prime Evil' bygd his own men would stay behind bars until the day he died.

    But one woman, plagued by awkward questions about the natur of hämnd and forgiveness, decided to look into the monster's heart and found a man worthy of a pardon and freedom. During many hours of conversation, de Kock and Gobodo-Madikezela, a clinical psychologist from the townships, take a remarkable shared journey into what it means to be human.