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Dimitri Tsafendas ((ギリシア語:Δημήτρης Τσαφέντας); 14 January 1918 – 7 October 1999) is known as the assassin of Prime Minister of South Africa Hendrik Verwoerd, the "Architect of Apartheid" on 6 September 1966.〔(Obituary: Long-jailed assassin of South African premier ) in ''The Guardian'', 11 October 1999. Archived by WebCite at () Retrieved on 8 July 2009.〕 Tsafendas, working as a parliamentary messenger, stabbed Verwoerd with a dagger during a parliamentary session. ==Early life== Tsafendas was born in Lourenço Marques (today's Maputo) to Michaelis Tsafendas (also spelled Miguel Tsafandakis), a Greek seaman, and Amelia Williams, a Mozambican of mixed race. He was sent to Egypt after his first year to live with his grandmother.〔Hollington, Kris. 2008. ''Wolves, Jackals, and Foxes: The Assassins Who Changed History''. New York: Macmillan, p. 116. ISBN 978-0-312-37899-8〕 He returned to Mozambique five years later; then, at the age of ten, moved to Transvaal, where he attended Middleburg Primary School from 1928–1930. He then returned to Mozambique and attended a church school for the next two years.〔 From age 16, Tsafendas worked at various jobs.〔 He joined the South African Communist Party in the 1930s.〔Dyzenhaus, David. 1998. ''Judging the Judges, Judging Ourselves: truth, reconciliation and the apartheid legal order'' Oxford: Hart Publishing, p. 50. ISBN 978-1-901362-94-7〕 He became a seaman in the merchant marine in 1941.〔Robins, Jon. "The Assassin and the Tapeworm," ''The New Statesman''. London. 27 March 2000.〕 He served aboard a US convoy ship after the outbreak of the Second World War, and spent the next 20 years travelling. He began to experience psychotic episodes that resulted in short periods of institutionalisation in various countries, including a 6-month detention on Ellis Island where he was diagnosed as schizophrenic.〔〔 During his wanderings, he picked up 8 languages, and upon his return to South Africa, he worked for a time as a translator.〔 Tsafendas was shunned in white circles in South Africa because of his dark skin, though under the apartheid system's racial laws he was classified as white.〔Kahn, Ely J. ''The Separated People: A Look at Contemporary South Africa''. New York City: W. W. Norton & Company, p. 149. ISBN 978-0-393-05351-7〕 However, because of his dark appearance, he faced taunts and ostracism from white South African society throughout his life.〔 He had become a baptised member of the Two by Twos sect while visiting Greece, and associated with its members after returning to South Africa on a temporary visa.〔Hollington, Kris. 2008. ''Wolves, Jackals, and Foxes: The Assassins Who Changed History''. New York: Macmillan, p. 117. ISBN 978-0-312-37899-8〕〔(Account of Tsafendas ) in South Africa before the assassination. Archived by WebCite at () Retrieved on 8 July 2009.〕 Shortly before the assassination, Tsafendas applied for reclassification from "white" to "coloured" so that he could legally live with his mixed-race girlfriend, but his application was turned down.〔("The Worm Did It" ), ''New York Times'' (book review), 24 June 2001〕〔("The assassin and the tapeworm" ), by Jon Robins, ''New Statesman'', 27 March 2000〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dimitri Tsafendas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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