CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- Prime Minister Hendrick Verwoerd was assassinated today in Parliament by a six-foot white messenger who stabbed him repeatedly in the neck and chest with two silver daggers.

No two surnames in the history of South Africa place a greater burden on the children than Mandela and Verwoerd. It would be easy to lampoon what appears to be the mindless pursuit of fame and funds ...

It's South Africa’s JFK moment – people who were alive on September 6, 1966 can to this day remember exactly where they were when Dr Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd was assassinated. Just after 14:00, ...

I was about five when I met my first tyrant. His name was Hendrik Verwoerd. We lived close to each other in one of those green Johannesburg suburbs that named its streets after Irish counties: Kerry, ...

As the twelve leaders of the British Commonwealth gathered last week in London from all parts of the world, only one question obsessed editorialists and statesmen: Would they, or would they not, expel ...

Melanie Verwoerd leaving court after the injunction over her book on Gerry Ryan The late Gerry Ryan with his partner and author of the memoir on their relationship 'When We Dance', Melanie Verwoerd ...

Growing up in Maputo (then Lourenço Marques) in the 1920s and 1930s, Dimitri Tsafendas would play sword-fight with his friends. While they would imagine being Robin Hood or D’Artagnan from Alexandre ...