The Man Who Killed Apartheid: The Life of Dimitri Tsafendas

The Man Who Killed Apartheid: The Life of Dimitri Tsafendas
Author :
Publisher : African Sun Media
Total Pages : 535
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781998951390
ISBN-13 : 1998951391
Rating : 4/5 (391 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Man Who Killed Apartheid: The Life of Dimitri Tsafendas by : Harris Dousemetzis

Download or read book The Man Who Killed Apartheid: The Life of Dimitri Tsafendas written by Harris Dousemetzis and published by African Sun Media. This book was released on 2024-03-04 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 6 September 1966, inside the House of Assembly in Cape Town, Dimitri Tsafendas stabbed to death Hendrik Verwoerd, South Africa’s Prime Minister and so-called “architect of apartheid”. Tsafendas was immediately arrested and before he had even been questioned by the authorities, they declared him a madman without any political motive for the killing. In the Cape Supreme Court, Tsafendas was found unfit to stand trial on the grounds that he suffered from schizophrenia and that he had no political motive for killing Verwoerd. Tsafendas spent the next 28 years in custody, making him the longest-serving detainee in South African history. For most of his incarnation he was subjected to cruel and inhumane treatment by the prison authorities. From 2009 to 2018, Harris Dousemetzis extensively researched the assassination of Verwoerd and the life of Tsafendas. For this research, he travelled to South Africa, Mozambique, Greece, France, and Turkey, and interviewed about 150 people who either knew Tsafendas or Verwoerd or were involved with the case of the assassination. He discovered about 12,000 pages of documents on the case, most of them previously unpublished, in archival collections in South Africa, Portugal and the UK. Dousemetzis collaborated with prominent South African jurists, psychiatrists and psychologists, and concluded his research, by writing the Report to the Minister of Justice in the Matter of Dr. Verwoerd’s Assassination. The report conclusively proved that Tsafendas had assassinated Verwoerd for political reasons and that the apartheid authorities had orchestrated a massive operation to declare him insane and apolitical. This ground-breaking report and this book corrected the historical record regarding Verwoerd’s assassination and Tsafendas. The Man Who Killed Apartheid, based on Dousemetzis’s groundbreaking research, chronicles in detail Tsafendas’s life and conclusively demonstrates that he was a perfectly sane and deeply political person with a long history of political activism. At the same time, the book exposes the lie at the heart of apartheid’s posture on the assassination of Hendrik Verwoerd and provides a rare picture of how the racist regime operated and what it was like to live and die under apartheid.


The Man Who Killed Apartheid: The Life of Dimitri Tsafendas Related Books

The Man Who Killed Apartheid: The Life of Dimitri Tsafendas
Language: en
Pages: 535
Authors: Harris Dousemetzis
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-03-04 - Publisher: African Sun Media

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

On 6 September 1966, inside the House of Assembly in Cape Town, Dimitri Tsafendas stabbed to death Hendrik Verwoerd, South Africa’s Prime Minister and so-call
The Man who Killed Apartheid: The Life of Dimitri Tsafendas
Language: en
Pages: 520
Authors: Harris Dousemetzis
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-01-10 - Publisher: Vernon Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

On 6 September 1966, inside the House of Assembly in Cape Town, Dimitri Tsafendas fatally stabbed Hendrik Verwoerd, South Africa’s Prime Minister and so-calle
The Man who Killed Apartheid
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Harris Dousemetzis
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-05-18 - Publisher: Vernon Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

On 6 September 1966, inside the House of Assembly in Cape Town, Dimitri Tsafendas fatally stabbed Hendrik Verwoerd, South Africa's Prime Minister and so-called
A Human Being Died that Night
Language: en
Pages: 212
Authors: Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Scenes from apartheid -- An encounter with "prime evil" -- The trigger hand -- The evolution of evil -- The language of trauma -- Apartheid of the mind -- "I ha
We Are Not Such Things
Language: en
Pages: 546
Authors: Justine van der Leun
Categories: True Crime
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-06-28 - Publisher: Random House

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Justine van der Leun reopens the murder of a young American woman in South Africa, an iconic case that calls into question our understanding of truth and reconc