Dimitri Tsafendas, the man who killed apartheid Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd in 1966, was sane and believed that by killing the person dubbed the “architect of apartheid”, the system of apartheid ...

This is a review of two biographies, namely, Robert McBride: The Struggle Continues by Bryan Rostron and The Man Who Killed Apartheid: The Life of Dimitri Tsafendas by Harris Dousemetzis with Gerry ...

When communist Dimitri Tsafendas stabbed Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd in the South African Houses of Parliament in 1966, the stunned apartheid government had to find a way to deflect the deeply ...

On September 6, 1966, Dimitri Tsafendas plunged a dagger repeatedly into the heart and lungs of Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd. As Dr Hendrik Verwoerd, the notorious architect of Apartheid, made his ...

When my relative stabbed PM Hendrik Verwoerd to death, he was described as a “madman”—but he was really trying to bring down apartheid. South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd is carried from ...

United Nations Photo, 1985 Riot, South Africa, Flickr, CC, https://www.flickr.com/photos/un_photo/4768301150 “You are guilty not only when you commit a crime, but ...

On 6 September 1966 a man called Dimitri Tsafendas stabbed to death during a parliamentary session the then Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoed. History remembers him as mentally unstable. Chris Bishop is ...

A request for the graves of former prime minister Hendrik Verwoerd and his assassin Dimitri Tsafendas to be declared national heritage sites was rejected by the National Heritage Council (NHC). "As ...

The Greek Orthodox Church in Maputo has commemorated the life and memory of Dimitri Tsafendas, with a service that coincided with the 200th anniversary of the Greek Revolution. When communist Dimitri ...