Dimitri Tsafendas was a Greek-Mozambican lifelong political militant and the assassin of Prime Minister of South Africa Hendrik Verwoerd on 6 September 1966. Tsafendas, while working as a parliamentary messenger, stabbed Verwoerd to death during a sitting of the House of Assembly in Cape Town; Verwoerd is commonly regarded as the architect of Apartheid.
Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd was a South African politician, a scholar of applied psychology and sociology, and chief editor of Die Transvaler newspaper. He is commonly regarded as the architect of Apartheid. Verwoerd played a significant role in socially engineering apartheid, the country's system of institutionalized racial segregation and white supremacy, and implementing its policies as Minister of Native Affairs (1950–1958) and then as prime minister (1958–1966). Furthermore, Verwoerd played a vital role in helping the far-right National Party come to power in 1948, serving as their political strategist and propagandist, becoming party leader upon his premiership. He was the Union of South Africa's last prime minister, from 1958 to 1961, when he proclaimed the founding of the Republic of South Africa, remaining its prime minister until his assassination in 1966.
Balthazar Johannes "B. J." Vorster was a South African politician who served as the prime minister of South Africa from 1966 to 1978 and the fourth state president of South Africa from 1978 to 1979. Known as B. J. Vorster during much of his career, he came to prefer the anglicized name John in the 1970s.
Muller is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Pratt is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:
The following lists events that happened during 1966 in South Africa.
The following lists events that happened during 1960 in South Africa.
The following lists events that happened during 1958 in South Africa.
Botha is a common Afrikaans surname, derived from the Friso-Saxon Both. It was brought to South Africa in 1678 by Frederich Botha.
Theophilus Ebenhaezer ('Eben') Dönges was a South African politician who was elected the state president of South Africa, but died before he could take office, aged 69.
David Pratt may refer to:
Vorster is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Gandhi(pronunciation ; Hindi: गांधी) is an Indian(Punjabi and Gujarati) surname. Both Punjabis(Khatri/Arora) and Gujarati Baniyas can have 'Gandhi' as a surname. It is most commonly found among people living within and around the northern state of Punjab and the western state of Gujarat.
There is a small community of Japanese expatriate people living in or people who were born in South Africa with Japanese ancestry. Most of them live in Johannesburg and other major cities.
De Kock is a Dutch occupational surname meaning "the cook".
Pieter Mattheus Kruger Le Roux, generally known as P. K. Le Roux was a South African National Party politician who served as a Cabinet minister between 1958 and 1968, first as Minister of Water Affairs and Agricultural Technical Services and latterly as Minister of the Interior.
Witbooi is an Afrikaans and Khoekhoe surname, common in Namibia. It may refer to:
Elizabeth "Betsie" Verwoerd was the spouse of the Prime Minister of South Africa from 2 September 1958 until the assassination of her husband Hendrik Verwoerd on 6 September 1966.
Odendaal is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Wynand Johannes Boshoff is a South African academic and politician from the Northern Cape serving as a Member of the National Assembly of South Africa for the Freedom Front Plus (FF+) since 2019. He has been serving as the Provincial Leader of the FF+ since 2015. He previously served as a municipal councillor of the Sol Plaatje Local Municipality from 2016 to 2019. Boshoff is the grandson of the assassinated apartheid-era Prime Minister of South Africa, Hendrik Verwoerd, who served from 1958 until 1966, and the son of Afrikaner enclave Orania founder, Carel Boshoff.
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