Eugene de Kock. A long night's damage - Working for the Apartheid State

By Eugene de Kock and Jeremy Gordin, 1998.

Softcover, 332 pages. 

Good condition. Small stain/ spot on first few pages. The cover shows some signs of handling. Name of former owner in front. Tightly bound, neat and clean.

A terrifying book. This is a memoir by the Apartheid government's chief murderer and assassin. His treatment by the democratic government is still controversial. The reasons for the controversy are patiently revealed in this book.

On 30 April 1993 Colonel Eugene de Kock was discharged from the South African Police ahead of further investigations into his activities as head of the Security Police's section C1 at the notorious Vlakplaas Farm north of Pretoria. By then the ruling National Party was engaged in a massive damage control exercise. Many officers of the Security Forces as well as De Kock himself were being eyed as possible scapegoats. As it transpired at his trial, De Kock was the government's chief assassin. But De Kock was not an out-of-control policeman, he was 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.