Talking Books Ep 41: The Man Who Killed Apartheid: The Life of Dimitri Tsafendas

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Published on Aug 29, 2022
On 6 September 1966 a man called Dimitri Tsafendas stabbed to death during a parliamentary session the then Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoed. History remembers him as mentally unstable. Chris Bishop is in the chair for this episode of Talking Books and discusses a controversial new book The Man Who Killed Apartheid: The Life of Dimitri Tsafendas with the author Harris Dousemetzis. Dousemetzis calls for the historical record to be changed to reflect that Tsafendas was a sane man who committed a political assassination.