There was no doubting the guilt of the man on trial in Cape Town last week. He was Dimitrio Tsafendas, the 48-year-old parliamentary messenger who stabbed Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd to death ...

Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd, prime minister of the Republic of South Africa, rose from his desk in Parliament September 6 at 2 p.m., as corridor bells announced the opening of another session. At that ...

To many Afrikaners, the Verwoerd family is akin to royalty. Every South African city has a street, hospital, airport or suburb named after Hendrik Verwoerd, the prime minister who was assassinated in ...

In Capetown, South Africa, in September 1966, Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid, was stabbed to death in Parliament. The course of South African history was changed by the ...

Nikos Konstandaras is a columnist for the Greek daily Kathimerini. When my relative stabbed PM Hendrik Verwoerd to death, he was described as a “madman”—but he was really trying to bring down ...