The Man who Killed Apartheid: The Life of Dimitri Tsafendas

The Man who Killed Apartheid: The Life of Dimitri Tsafendas

In the South African House of Assembly, on 6 September 1966, Dimitri Tsafendas stabbed to death Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd. Afterwards, Tsafendas was declared to be a schizophrenic who believed a tapeworm lived inside him which controlled his actions, and that he had no political motive for assassinating Verwoerd.
Pronounced unfit to stand trial, Tsafendas went down in history as a deranged parliamentary messenger.
For fifty years, this story prevailed. However, this book now reveals the truth about Tsafendas; that he was deeply political from an early age. He was arrested numerous times, starting in Mozambique, the country of his birth. In Portugal, the security police opened a file on him in 1938, when he was aged only twenty. After the assassination, Tsafendas volunteered a series of incontestable political reasons for killing Verwoerd, but these, along with details of his political past, were never allowed to see the light of day.
This book reveals the extent of the cover-up by South Africaâ€™s authorities and the desperate lengths they went to conceal the
existence of Tsafendasâ€™s opposition to apartheid. The book exposes one of the great lies in South African history, that Verwoerd was murdered by a mad man. It also offers for the first time a complete biography of this extraordinary man.
Advocate George Bizos characterised Dousemetzisâ€™s work on Tsafendas and Verwoerdâ€™s assassination as â€˜monumentalâ€™ and of
being â€˜of major historical importance for South Africa and as to our understanding of Verwoerdâ€™s assassinationâ€™. Professor John Dugard said â€˜South African history should know the truth about Tsafendas.
Dousemetzis has done South Africa a service by correcting the historical record.â€™
Country USA
Manufacturer Jacana Media
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2018-11-01
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Jacana Media
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2018-11-01
Format	Kindle eBook

The Man who Killed Apartheid: The Life of Dimitri Tsafendas

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