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Is there any crime so vile that its perpetrator cannot be forgiven? The crimes of Eugene de Kock - nicknamed 'Prime Evil' by his apartheid colleagues - earned him 212 years locked behind bars for crimes against humanity. One woman refused to throw away the key. Professor Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, a clinical psychologist and lecturer at the University of Cape Town, has been pitting the notion of forgiveness against ideas of revenge.
Some perpetrators of gross violence did receive multiple life sentences but South Africa also favoured a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), which they felt would heal wounds. When Professor Gobodo-Madikizela came into the Network Africa studios, Bola Musuro asked her why she had undertaken her work with de Kock? | LOCAL LINKS  Word wizard19 August, 2006 | News Literary glory20 July, 2006 | News Halala Madiba17 July, 2006 | News The Seretse Khama story 08 July, 2006 | News EXTERNAL LINKS The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites | |||||||||||||||||||
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