A question of madness. The furiosus
Description
In Capetown, South Africa, in September 1966, Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid, was stabbed to death in Parliament. The course of South African history was changed by the assassin, Dimitri Tsafendas, who was written off as mad and condemned to twenty eight years of imprisonment. A Question of Madness tells the extraordinary human story of a man, born of a black mother, but classified white, who travelled the world in hopeless search of sanctuary - eventually returning to the land of apartheid to wreak vengeance on the one who symbolised the racism which had haunted his life.
Runtime
53 min
Creator
Key, Liza
Subjects
Contributor
Geography
Genre
Date of Publication
2001
Database
Alexander Street
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