Dimitri Tsafendas
✓ Source-basedstableAssassin of South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd (1918-1999)
Lived 1918 to 1999 · aged 81
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Dimitri Tsafendas was a Greek-Mozambican political militant and the assassin of Prime Minister of South Africa Hendrik Verwoerd.
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Dimitri Tsafendas was a Greek-Mozambican political militant and the assassin of Prime Minister of South Africa Hendrik Verwoerd. On 6 September 1966, while working as a parliamentary messenger, Tsafendas stabbed Verwoerd - commonly regarded as the architect of apartheid - to death during a sitting of the House of Assembly in Cape Town.
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Lived 1918 to 1999 · aged 81
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