Assassin of South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd
Dimitri Tsafendas
Tsafendas in a 1966 mugshot
Born
(1918-01-14)14 January 1918
Lourenço Marques, Portuguese Mozambique
Died
7 October 1999(1999-10-07) (aged 81)
Krugersdorp, Gauteng, South Africa
Known for
Assassination of South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd
Political party
SACP
Criminal charge
Murder
Criminal penalty
Detained "at the pleasure of the State President"
Criminal status
Not guilty by reason of insanity
Military career
Service/branch
United States Merchant Marine (1941–1945) Democratic Army of Greece (1947–1949)
Battles/wars
World War II Greek Civil War
Dimitri Tsafendas (Greek: Δημήτρης Τσαφέντας; 14 January 1918 – 7 October 1999) was a Greek-Mozambican lifelong political militant and the assassin of Prime Minister of South Africa Hendrik Verwoerd.[1] On 6 September 1966, while working as a parliamentary messenger, Tsafendas stabbed Verwoerd — commonly regarded as the architect of apartheid[1][2] — to death during a sitting of the House of Assembly in Cape Town.
^ abBeresford, David (11 October 1999), Obituary: Long-jailed assassin of South African premier in The Guardian. Archived by WebCite at [1] Retrieved 8 July 2009.
^Kenney, Henry (2016). Verwoerd: Architect of Apartheid. Jonathan Ball Publishers. ISBN 978-1-86842-716-1.
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