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 ...

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 ...

On 2 January 2022, a fire, set at dawn, gutted part of that very same Old Assembly as well as the new National Assembly. The 49-year-old Zandile Mafe was arrested soon afterwards. He was found ...

Harris Dousemetzis didn’t know about prime minister Hendrik Verwoerd’s assassin Dimitri Tsafendas, but he was aware of apartheid from a young age. Born in Greece in 1977 to a mother who was a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dimitri Tsafendas,81, who assassinated South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd in 1966, died Thursday in Johannesburg. Tsafendas was a parliamentary messenger when he stabbed Mr. Verwoerd to ...

This is scary stuff. Have we forgotten Dimitri Tsafendas, who assassinated Hendrik Verwoerd, because a tapeworm told Tsafendas to do the deed? Now recall Jacob Zuma, Barack Obama et al with Thamsanqa ...

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 ...