A long night's Damage Working for the Apartheid State. Eugene de Kock as told to Jeremy Gordin
A long night's Damage Working for the Apartheid State. Eugene de Kock as told to Jeremy Gordin
Published: Contra, Johannesburg, 1998 first edition.
ISBN 0620221984
Condition: Good - Very good. This book is in very good condition. The wraps have some very slight/limited signs of wear and a slight curl to the corners and the bookblock is slightly dusty. The book’s pages are overall clean, intact and the spine remains in perfect undamaged condition. This book has been well maintained and looked after thus far.Previous owners name neatly inscribed on first page.
-'As told to Jeremy Gordin', Contra, chronology, co-writer's foreword, introduction by Eugene de Kock, co-writer's afterword, the glossary, notes, sources, appendix: apartheid laws, 332 pages, condition: very good.
Eugene de Kock , aka 'Prime Evil', head of C1 at Vlakplaas, and the apartheid government's assassin-in -chief. Kidnapping, torturing, and murdering his way through the 1980's, here he names the names, tells exactly what he was ordered to do, and by whom, and for what reason. Eugene de Kock was convicted under the post -apartheid government on eighty-nine charges and sentenced to 212 years in prison. On 30th January 2015 the Justice Ministry announced that Eugene de Kock has been granted parole.
Jeremy Gordin is a well known journalist and researcher. He was the author of 'Zuma: A Biography' and director of the University of the Witwatersrand's 'Justice Project'.
-Eugene De Kock tells the story of his activities as head of the Security Police's section C1 at the notorious Vlakplaas Farm north of Pretoria. C1 was a counter-insurgency unit of the South African Police that kidnapped, tortured, and murdered numerous anti-apartheid activists from the 1980s to the early-90s. De Kock claims he was not an out-of-control policeman, but an officer acting under orders. In this book he names the men who gave him orders, what they ordered him to do and for what reasons. He lifts the curtain on a heinous period of South African history when the architects of apartheid thought that any means justified their ends. This book lays out in great detail the corruption and moral decadence that pervaded the SADF and the Police.
