Word: gobodo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gobodo-Madikizelaserved on the TRC's Human Rights ViolationsCommittee for two years, interviewing perpetratorsof apartheid who were applying to the commissionfor amnesty...
...Gobodo-Madikizela said it is important ininterviews to recognize the humanity ofperpetrators, but said she finds it difficult todo at times. When she discovered that she shared abirthday with perpetrator she was interviewing,"It was very creepy. I just couldn't tell him,`Wow! We have the same birthday...
...talked about his two sons, one of which isthe same age of my son," Gobodo-Madikizela said."Such connections made him feel part of the humanworld...
...clinical psychologist, Gobodo-Madikizelaanalyzed the perpetrators in terms of "splitting"and projection of their fears and guilt ontoothers...
After the lecture, Gobodo-Madikizela fended offquestions about the effectiveness of the TRC. Thecommittee was the product of a compromise betweenofficials who advocated the criminal courts andthose who believed the justice system was tooinfluenced by apartheid...