Dimitri Tsafendas
Dimitri Tsafendas was a South African man known for assassinating Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid, in 1966. Initially labeled as mentally ill, recent scholarship has reframed Tsafendas as a revolutionary figure whose actions were motivated by a desire to oppose the oppressive policies of apartheid rather than insanity.
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Tsafendas assassinated Hendrik Verwoerd to try and stop his policies of institutionalised racism.
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