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Assassin of South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd

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 AfricaHendrik 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.

Early life

Tsafendas was born in Lourenço Marques (today's Maputo) in Mozambique, then a colony of Portugal. His parents were Michalis Tsafandakis (Greek: Μιχάλης Τσαφαντάκης, also spelled Miguel Tsafandakis), a Greek marine engineer with anarchist leanings^[3] from Kitharida, a small village near Heraklion, Crete, and Amelia Williams, a Mozambican woman of mixed race.^[4]: 35 He was sent to Egypt when he was three to li