In the Eastern Cape Division of the High Court in Gqeberha, the former assassin and “professional torturer” Eugene de Kock appeared as a man weighed by the burden of his history, a horror story he has had to repeat over and over again, like a personalised mantra, starting in 1998 at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). His appearance at the inquest into the Cradock Four coincides with th...