Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela

Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela is a professor at the University of Cape Town; award winning author of A Human Being Died That Night; and former committee member of The Truth and Reconcilliation Commission. She is a senior consultant for reconciliation at the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation in Cape Town.  A clinical psychologist, she is a former member of the Human Rights Violations Committee of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC).  She initiated and developed the TRC’s first outreach program, which gave victims of human rights violations a chance to speak publicly about their abuses.  She served on the Human rights Violations Committee on South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and was responsible for coordinating the public hearings process for victims of human rights abuses in the Western Cape.  She is currently senior consultant for the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation in Cape Town and Associate professor of psychology at the University of Cape Town.