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“One day I summoned all my courage: ‘Eugene, how does it feel to kill another human being?’ His facial muscles involuntarily pulled in horror. ‘The person, the victim, gives off a smell,’ he says. ‘Even today I can still recall that smell. It makes me nauseous to the core of my being; that particular smell of fear that bursts through a person’s pores and his body fluid.’” The blood of several anti-apartheid activists is on Eugene de Kock’s hands and for most South Africans he represents prime evil. Is there any humaneness to be found in the man who many call a monster; and how did he come to be an ‘assassin for the state’? Anemari Jansen went in search of answers by loo ...