автор: Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela

Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela is a research professor in trauma, memory and forgiveness at the University of the Free State. She was previously Associate professor of Psychology at the University of Cape Town, and became a full professor at the same university in 2010. Gobodo-Madikizela served on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission as coordinator of victims» public hearings in the Western Cape. This experience led her to write the award-winning book «A Human Being Died That Night» about her interactions with the infamous apartheid assassin Eugene de Kock. She works with various organisations within South Africa and internationally to facilitate processes of forgiveness, overcoming collective trauma, and reconciliation.