Eugene de Kock, former South African police colonel and assassin, active under the apartheid government [PHOTO:Courtesy] Apartheid death-squad leader Eugene de Kock, dubbed 'Prime Evil' for his role ...

South Africa's government says Eugene de Kock, a death squad leader for the apartheid state, has been granted parole after two decades in jail. Justice Minister Michael Masutha said Friday that the ...

De Kock’s ill health was confirmed during court proceedings today (Tuesday) on day two of the Cradock four inquest before the Gqebherha High Court. Eugene de Kock, a former Vlakplaas commander, speaks ...

Eugene de Kock was a commanding officer of the South African government’s death squad stationed at Vlakplaas. He was known simply as “Prime Evil” for the crimes he committed against blacks in South ...

In 1997 the psychologist Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, a member of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, began meeting with Eugene de Kock, an imprisoned former assassin for the apartheid ...

"As long as your crimes were politically motivated, you got off," says Nicholas Wright, the brilliant and self-effacing Peter Pan of the British theatre establishment, of his new subject, Eugene de ...

The country's justice minister said he was ordering the release of Eugene de Kock in the interest of "nation-building and reconciliation." De Kock... The South African government has decided to grant ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Apartheid death-squad leader Eugene de Kock, dubbed 'Prime Evil' for his role in the torture and murder of black South African activists in the 1980s and early 1990s, will ...

JOHANNESBURG — The South African government Friday granted parole to Eugene de Kock, the head of an apartheid state covert unit responsible for dozens of deaths, saying his freedom is in the interest ...