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	Dimitri Tsafendas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tsafendas, at his trial, was found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity.
		Under the apartheid regime's laws, having been charged with murder, Tsafendas was given a cell on death row in Pretoria Central Prison, next to the room in which men were hanged, sometimes seven at a time.
		Tsafendas was certified as insane and was ordered to be detained at Weskoppies, a psychiatric hospital.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dimitri_Tsafendas (345 words)

	The life of Dimitri Tsafendas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		When Dimitri Tsafendas was a young boy in Mozambique it was discovered that he had a giant tapeworm.
		Dimitri passed the worm, which was two or three metres long, but panicked because his stepmother flushed it into the sewers - still alive, he believed.
		Tsafendas was born in Mozambique, the son of a marine engineer of Greek extraction and a mother of mixed race, whom his father disowned and he never knew.
	www.dannymorrison.com /articles/dimitri.html (896 words)

	Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Dimitri Tsafendas (14 January 1918 – 7 October 1999) assassinated South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of that country's apartheid program, on 6 September 1966.
		Tsafendas remained there for nearly thirty years, and died in a psychiatric hospital at the age of 81.
		Tsafendas, born in Mozambique of a Greek father and a fl mother whom he never knew, was shunned in South Africa for his dark skin.
	simple.seowaste.com /dimitri_tsafendas (262 words)

	New Statesman - The assassin and the tapeworm
		Tsafendas was born in Mozambique in 1918, the son of a Greek engineer, and moved to the Transvaal at the age of ten.
		Tsafendas was pining for a South African girlfriend, but he feared that their offspring would be fl.
		Tsafendas "of mixed blood (a coloured)", it reported, was spotted consorting with "persons of the negro race (fls)" in a hotel bar.
	www.newstatesman.com /200003270024 (1837 words)

	Crimes & Mysteries of South Africa
		Tsafendas, who was 48 years-old at the time of the assassination, was the son of a Cypriot father and a fl Mozambique mother, but was classified as white.
		In it, Tsafendas maintained that he was being well treated in prison and was receiving regular psychiatric treatment.
		On 30 September 1989, Dimitri Tsafendas was transferred from Pretoria Central Prison to Zonderwater Prison near Cullinan.
	www.africacrime-mystery.co.za /books/fsac/chp14.htm (1505 words)

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		JOHANNESBURG -- Dimitri Tsafendas, who in 1966 assassinated Dr Hendrik Verwoerd, the then prime minister and the architect of apartheid, will be buried by members of the Greek community in Krugersdorp this morning, Gauteng health spokesman Popo Maja said yesterday.
		Tsafendas was apparently abandoned by his family 10 years ago and the department had no record of their whereabouts to inform them about his death.
		Kruger said it was ironic that the former apartheid system, depicted by many as reprehensible, refrained from condemning Tsafendas to a death sentence.
	www.dispatch.co.za /1999/10/09/southafrica/SA.HTM (392 words)

	The Worm Did It
		Dimitri Tsafendas was a ''mad Greek'' who followed instructions from a giant tapeworm.
		Tsafendas, it emerges, lived as an illegitimate from conception to coffin.
		Tsafendas yearned, he told acquaintances, for a ''rainbow nation.'' He abhorred the laws that forbade sex across the color bar.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/01/06/24/reviews/010624.24nixont.html (641 words)

	TIGblogs - Eliza Tiernan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Tsafendas was pining for a South African girl-friend, but he feared that their offspring would be fl.
		In 1964, Tsafendas was back in South Africa and -- in spite of mixed parentage, communism and periods of insanity -- landed himself a job as a messenger in the whites-only parliament, within reach of Verwoerd.
		In her A Question of Madness, Key captures Tsafendas talking movingly of a moment of kindness 70 years ago by a fellow pupil defending him from the racial taunts of the headmaster's son.
	eliza_t.tigblog.org /friends/?next=75 (2311 words)

	Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In 1966, Verwoerd was stabbed to death in the House of Assembly by Dimitri Tsafendas, a parliamentary clerk, who escaped the death penalty on the grounds of insanity, saying that a large worm in his stomach told him to kill Verwoerd.
		Tsafendas had a Mozambican mother and, although not racially classified as a "coloured", he had a dark skin.
		The trial of Tsafendas dealt mainly with the question of whether he was capable of fully understanding the consequences of his actions, and possible motives were never discussed.
	advantacell.com /wiki/Hendrik_Frensch_Verwoerd (1573 words)

	Daily Mail&Guardian: Place in heaven for unsung hero
		Hendrik Verwoerd's assassin Dimitri Tsafendas was driven by the same principles as the anti-apartheid struggle.
		Like Princip and Oswald, Dimitri Tsafendas had seemed to be a man working to an individually inspired plan when he stabbed Hendrik Verwoerd, the "architect of grand apartheid", to death in the legislative chamber of the Parliament buildings in Cape Town on September 6 1966.
		Sure, Tsafendas had confided humorously to friends that he thought he must have a tapeworm inside him, because he couldn't understand why he had such an insatiable appetite -- for food, that is, not for killing politicians.
	www.chico.mweb.co.za /mg/features/with_the_lid_off/oct19.html (854 words)

	ZA@Play - Movies: The Key to Tsafendas 24/06/99
		But Tsafendas, his supposedly insane murderer who languished in a Cape Town prison, was unknown.
		Tsafendas had no tapeworm and interviews with him in the documentary show a man who doesn’t seem so out of control.
		Dimitri Tsafendas as he appears in his police ID photograph (top) and more recently, in the documentary The Furiosus
	www.chico.mweb.co.za /art/film/9906/990624-tsafendas.html (1011 words)

	Krueger Anton Robert - playwright (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In 1966, Dimitri Tsafendas irrevocably altered the course of South African history by assassinating Henrik Verwoerd, the founder of Apartheid.
		His motivations have never been fully explored, and whether his act was one of madness or morality remains a mystery.
		This thoroughly researched play approaches Tsafendas as tragic hero, and presents the possibility that he may well have been a sane man living in a strange land.
	www.doollee.com /PlaywrightsK/KruegerAntonRobert.htm (773 words)

	Educational Media Reviews Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The assassin was Dimitri Tsafendas, a mixed race man from Mozambique.
		A hot topic of debate is Tsafendas' mental stability at the time of the assassination.
		The segments where Tsafendas is interviewed are hard to follow, because of the extremely labored and nasal way in which he speaks.
	libweb.lib.buffalo.edu /emro/emroDetail.asp?Number=641 (478 words)

	Interview with De Klerk by Danny Morrison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		South African Prime Minister Dr Hendrik Verwoerd was addressing Parliament one day when a messenger, Greek immigrant Dimitri Tsafendas, came up to his bench and stabbed him to death.
		Tsafendas later told police that he had been ordered to do it by a giant tapeworm.
		I told him I was in a cell in Crumlin Road Jail in February 1990 when I heard on the radio his famous speech when he unbanned the ANC and the South African Communist Party, released Mandela one week later, lifted the State of Emergency, and paved the way for unconditional all-party talks.
	www.dannymorrison.com /articles/deklerk.html (1264 words)

	Chapter 15 - Wm Irvine Book - Gospel in South Africa
		It was in this atmosphere that Demetrius Tsafendas appeared on the scene.
		Demetrius Tsafendas was 48 years old at the time, and had been working less than a month as messenger in the Parliament.
		The Star Newspaper of Johannesburg 9/6/66 said Tsafendas was reported to be unable to “give a single coherent reason for committing the murder.” It was also published in Time and Newsweek Magazines.*** Demetrius claimed the reason he did it was because a tapeworm possessed him.
	home.earthlink.net /~truth333/BRG4-4-15WmIBook.html (6435 words)

	SABCnews.com - entertainment/other
		Boshoff said the part of the house occupied by Betsie Verwoerd would be left unchanged, while another part previously used by a nurse would house memorabilia such as paintings, books, clothes and cutlery.
		The suit Verwoerd was wearing when he was stabbed to death by deranged parliamentary messenger Dimitri Tsafendas on September 6, 1966 will also form part of the exhibition.
		Boshoff said the display would be made up of memorabilia collected by the Verwoerd family over the years, as well as a number of busts and statues taken down from public buildings when the ANC came to power in South Africa's first all-inclusive general election in 1994.
	www.sabcnews.com /entertainment/other/0,2172,3861,00.html (271 words)

	library bulletin 332
		In the early afternoon of Tuesday 6 September 1966, the Prime Minister of South Africa, Hendrik Verwoerd, was stabbed by four solid blows to the chest and died dramatically in full view of the House of Assembly.
		His assailant was an obscure messenger, Dimitri Tsafendas, whose knife, it might be said, played a crucial role in modern South African history: Vorster’s regime very quickly took on a different shape from that of the high priest of apartheid.
		The double irony of that day in 1966 is that for some while Tsafendas had been applying for re-classification as Coloured which would have disqualified him from his reserved Parliamentary job.
	www.library.unp.ac.za /id93.htm (1610 words)

	The Assassin -- A Story of Race and Rage in the Land of Apartheid -- Henk Van Woerden Dan Jacobson
		If ever one individual could be said to have embodied the tragedy of apartheid, Dimitri Tsafendas would be that man. At a time in South Africa when color was all, Tsafendas, bastard son of a Greek father and African mother, was untouchable - too fl for the whites and too white for the fls.
		Stateless, homeless, and loveless, on September 6, 1966, Tsafendas entered South Africa's parliament and stabbed Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd four times with a long knife, killing the architect of apartheid, the architect of his misery.
		Unwanted by fl or white family, denied the right to settle wherever he turns, Tsafendas drifts from sea to prison, from kitchen hand to street vendor to blood donor, from Mozambique to Egypt, Greece, Canada, and back to the Cape.
	www.frontlist.com /detail/0805066314 (244 words)

	The Man Who Knows Too Much (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Key's research for this film took her on a two-year journey to former South African Defence Force camps in remote parts of Northern Namibia, on a 600 kilometer trip up the Skeleton Coast and to Pretoria where she spent many days in Pretoria's Supreme Court while the Wouter Basson trial unfolded.
		, her film on Dimitri Tsafendas, Key avoids the didactic and in an investigative, open-ended documentary style she raises difficult questions about collective an individual responsibility.
		If former South African chemical and biological warfare chief, Wouter Basson is innocent as the court found after his two- year long trial then the question is; "Who is responsible for the many human rights abuses for which he stood accused?"
	www.geocities.com /project_coast/manwho.html (478 words)

	Once around the prickly pear - schizophrenia
		But some of it - like schizophrenia - can be a chemical imbalance, inherited from our ancestors but treatable by drugs.
		Dimitri Tsafendas was declared schizophrenic three months before he knifed to death Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, fueling a dispute about whether he acted from political motives or the voice of a tapeworm.
		But now top American businessman Robin Cunningham has described his descent from devout schoolboy into madness, and back again to success in his career and personal life, courtesy of a daily regimen of powerful drugs.
	www.scienceinafrica.co.za /sstory.htm (2272 words)

	******* Stop White Genocide, continued (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In= fact, I think it was Time magazine which, about a week before he was killed, carried a picture of him= which showed the shadow of a knife pointing right at his neck.
		DF: And he was assassinated by a card-carrying Communist, Dimitri Tsafendas.= After that, John Vorster was put in power.
		He had been the minister for security, and he was= responsible for Tsafendas even being in the country.
	multihome.www.opus1.com /ian/PRIVATE/2005/06/22/2005062200562512.html (3735 words)

	Festivals and Markets
		Thierry Michels's Mobutu, King of Zaire, portrays Mobutu's destructive reign of terror, and Liza Key's A Question Of Madness, which examines the life of Dimitri Tsafendas, the assassinator of Hendrik Verwoerd.
		In A Question of Madness, Liza Key makes a serious attempt to understand the mind of Dimitri Tsafendas, whose father was Greek and mother African.
		The task is not easy as Tsafendas, although intelligent enough to speak 8 languages, believed he was guided by a tapeworm in his stomach.
	www.africafilmtv.com /pages/archive/magazines/afm24e/festiv~1.htm (1881 words)

	Smokebox.net Words: The Keys To The Highway
		It was during Mogs's shift as the racing correspondent in Durban that an assassination attempt was made on South Africa's most famous race horse, Sea Cottage.
		It was 1966, the year that South Africa's Prime Minister, Hendrik Verwoerd, was dispatched to hell by the blade of one Dimitri Tsafendas, whom the state later declared as insane (go figure) and imprisoned in isolation for the rest of his life.
		Not too many mourned the killing of the racist Verwoerd, but a lone, sniping gunner, hidden in the dunes, shooting Sea Cottage in the hindquarters during his dawn gallop on the beaches of the Blue Lagoon, well that raised the public ire.
	www.smokebox.net /archives/word/morganhwy.html (2039 words)

	Debonair :Apartheid
		JUST as Americans can tell you where they were and what they were doing when John F Kennedy was assassinated, there is a whole generation of Afrikaners who can recall exactly the moment when they heard that HF Vervoerd had been stabbed to death by a parliamentary messenger with the unpronounceable name of Dimitri Tsafendas.
		A 12year-old schoolboy at the time, I remember our neighbour's wife across the street running into the house, her face wet with tears.
		Jaap Marais, the veteran leader of the Herstigte Nasionale Party, and his deceased former leader Albert Hertzog were the only politicians who realised that Tsafendas had not only killed 'Doktor", he had also killed the grand plan.
	members.tripod.com /Debonair37/p14.htm (688 words)

	The Assassin -- A Story of Race and Rage in the Land of Apartheid -- Henk van Woerden
		On September 6, 1966, Dimitri Tsafendas, stateless and homeless, entered South Africa's parliament and stabbed Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd four times with a long knife, killing the architect of apartheid, the architect of his misery.
		the illegitimate son of a Greek father and African mother, unwanted by fl or white family, denied the right to settle wherever he turns, Tsafendas drifts from sea to prison, from kitchen hand to street vendor to blood donor, from Mozambique to Egypt, Greece, Canada, and back to the Cape.
		Van Woerden traces the inexorable road that leads to Verwoerd's killing and reveals that the assassination - a resounding blow in the war against apartheid - was not the random act of a crazed individual, but perhaps the only choice left in a country itself gone mad.
	www.frontlist.com /detail/0312420846 (193 words)

	Homage to Dimitri TSAFENDAS Hero and martyr for the cause of the South African People. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Homage to Dimitri TSAFENDAS Hero and martyr for the cause of the South African People.
		Hero and martyr for the cause of the South African People.
		He deserved a better liberty than the one he got.
	libreopinion.com /mathaba/www/black/dimitri.htm (246 words)

	HENDRIK VERWOERD - PHOTOGRAPH SIGNED
		He continued the Nationalists' apartheid legislation, following the separate homeland policy of Bantustan that resettled fls in ten "fl homelands", and led South Africa out of the British Commonwealth.
		In 1966, while in Parliament in Capetown, he was assassinated by Dimitri Tsafendas, a parliamentary messenger who was later ruled insane.
		Mounted on heavy board, which is worn at bottom edge.
	www.galleryofhistory.com /archive/5_2002/leaders/HENDRIK_VERWOERD.htm (189 words)

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