By David Marchese Photo illustration by Bráulio Amado Twenty-five years ago, after the end of apartheid, South Africa established its Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The commission’s subsequent public hearings were an attempt to provide victims of the country’s brutal white-nationalist … Read More
With Tamar Garb, Centre for Racism and Racialisation, University College London
Speakers: Tamar Garb, Durning Lawrence Professor in the History of Art at UCL // Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, South African National Research Chair in Violent Histories and Transgenerational Trauma at Stellenbosch University, and the 2020-2021 Walter Jackson Bate Fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe … Read More
On the violence of racism and gender-based violence in South Africa – Daily Maverick
By Dennis Davis In episode 39 of this unique interview series, Judge Dennis Davis talks to Professor Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, the South African National Research Chair in Violent Histories and Transgenerational Trauma. South Africa happens to be a traumatised country in … Read More
Interview on Radio 702 on “Reflections on Transformation in South Africa” – 702
Koketso Sachane chats about navigating the complicated and complex journey towards dealing with racial tension. Should we be more militant in the how we deal with racial tension, or should we still follow Mandela’s non-violent strategy? In this new episode … Read More
Interview on A Human being Died that Night – Talk of the Nation, National Public Radio
By Neal Conan Next week marks the 10th anniversary of South Africa’s first democratic elections. It was also the start of a historic effort to address the violence and human rights abuses of the apartheid era. Join NPR’s Neal Conan … Read More
A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Story of Forgiveness – Los Angeles Public Library
In conversation with Louise Steinman A psychologist on South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission asks, “What does it mean when we discover than the incarnation of evil is as frighteningly human as we are?” In Conversation with Louise Steinman.
On Fresh Air with Teri Gross, National Public Radio, New York
Her new book is A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Story of Forgiveness. It’s about Eugene de Kock, the commanding officer of state-sanctioned apartheid death squads. Gobodo-Madikizela served as a psychologist on South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation … Read More