The Assassin
A Story of Race and Rage in the Land of Apartheid
by Henk Van Woerden, Dan Jacobson
192 pages· 2002· ISBN 9780312420840
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Examines the life of South African assassin Dimitri Tsafendas, whose African and Greek heritage made him unwanted by both whites and blacks, who fatally stabbed prime minister Hendrik Verwoerd in his anger over apartheid. Reprint.
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