The Man who Killed Apartheid: The Life of Dimitri Tsafendas: New Updated Version - Paperback

Dousemetzis, Harris: - From 2009 to 2018, Harris Dousemetzis extensively researched the assassination of Verwoerd and the life of Tsafendas. For this research, he travelled to South Africa, Mozambique, Greece, France, and Turkey, and interviewed about 150 people who either knew Tsafendas or Verwoerd or were involved in the case of the assassination. He discovered about 12,000 pages of documents on the case, most of them previously unpublished, in archival collections in South Africa, Portugal and the UK. Dousemetzis collaborated with prominent South African jurists, psychiatrists and psychologists, and concluded his research by writing the 'Report to the Minister of Justice in the Matter of Dr. Verwoerd's Assassination'. The report conclusively proved that Tsafendas had assassinated Verwoerd for political reasons and that the apartheid authorities had orchestrated a massive operation to declare him insane and apolitical.'The Man Who Killed Apartheid', based on Dousemetzis's groundbreaking research, chronicles in detail Tsafendas's life and conclusively demonstrates that he was a perfectly sane and deeply political person with a long history of political activism. At the same time, the book exposes the lie at the heart of apartheid's posture on the assassination of Hendrik Verwoerd and provides a rare picture of how the racist regime operated and what it was like to live and die under apartheid.Loughran, Gerry: - Gerry Loughran, author and journalist, spent many years in Africa as a foreign correspondent and as a senior executive of the Nation group of newspapers in Nairobi, Kenya. He was chef de bureau for United Press International in Beirut, Paris and Moscow before becoming foreign news editor in New York. Subsequently, he set up and ran Compass News Features, covering the developing world. He currently writes a weekly column in the Sunday Nation.