A Human Being Died That Night

A South African Woman Confronts the Legacy of Apartheid

Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela

 

Synopsis

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.

Review

A startlingly personal account...written with clarity, energy, and enormous empathy.

Author

Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela served on the Human Rights Violations Committee of South Africa’s great national experiment in healing, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. She lectures internationally on issues of reconciliation.