The Man Who Killed Apartheid: The life of Dimitri Tsafendas

By Harris Dousemetzis

On September 6, 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. 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 earlyage. 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 Africa's authorities and the desperate lengths they went to conceal the existence of Tsafendas's opposition to apartheid.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1431427543
• ISBN13: 9781431427543
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Jacana Media
• Length: 504 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"