Choosing to forgive can be frightening, but it’s a powerful tool for repairing the harm done by violence, oppression and other traumas.
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
Prof Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela receives third honorary doctorate, Stellenbosch University
Author: Corporate Communication [Alec Basson] – Stellenbosch University. Professor Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, Research Chair in Studies in Historical Trauma and Transformation at Stellenbosch University (SU), received an honorary doctorate from Rhodes University in Grahamstown on Friday (12 April 2019). This was her … Read More
Der Spiegel interview (in German) about A Human being Died that Night – Der Spiegel
Von Johann Grolle und Katja Thimm Die südafrikanische Psychologin Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela über Folterer im Staatsdienst, die Dynamik von Schuld und Vergebung und ihre Begegnung mit dem Chef der Polizei-Todesschwadronen des Apartheid-Regimes
The Guardian, interviewed about A Human being Died that Night – The Guardian
Nicknamed ‘Prime Evil’, Eugene de Kock was apartheid’s chief murderer. Now a psychologist from the townships says it’s time to forgive him. She tells Rory Carroll why.
New York Times interview about A Human Being Died that Night – New York Times
By Rachel L. Swarns May 10, 2003 The black woman saw him whenever she thumbed through her newspapers or switched on the television: the tall white man with thick glasses. He was Eugene de Kock, a former colonel in the … Read More