HF Verwoerd assassination - FUNERAL
He survived the 1st assassination attempt in 1960.
This newspaper contains a front page displayable headline, photos, and long detailed inside pages reports of the ASSASSINATION of the PREMIER of SOUTH AFRICA, Hendrik Verwoerd by a far right extremist and in particular his funeral
Printed 11 th september 1966... much of his life is in words and pictures...
This is a rare item and thus valuable. It is in fairly good condition.
General Info - (International Buyers):
Verwoerd is remembered as the man behind the conception and implementation of APARTHEID , a system of racial segregation dividing ethnic groups in South Africa.
Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd (8 September 1901 – 6 September 1966), commonly identified as H. F. Verwoerd, was Prime Minister of South Africa from 1958 until his assassination in 1966.
This is the original newspaper Die Dagbreek en Sondagnuus published 11 September 1966
He survived the 1st assassination attempt in 1960.
He is remembered as the man behind the conception and implementation of apartheid, a system of racial segregation dividing ethnic groups in the country.
This is the original newspaper Die Landstem published 7 September 1966.
He was Prime Minister during the establishment of the Republic of South Africa in 1961, thereby fulfilling the Afrikaner dream of an independent republic for South Africans. During his tenure as Prime Minister, anti-Apartheid movements such as the African National Congress (ANC) and the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) were banned, and the Rivonia Trial, which prosecuted ANC leaders, was held.
On 6 September 1966, Verwoerd was assassinated in Cape Town, shortly after entering the House of Assembly at 14:15. A mixed-race, uniformed parliamentary messenger named Dimitri Tsafendas stabbed Verwoerd in the neck and chest four times before being subdued by other members of the Assembly. Members of Parliament who were also trained doctors rushed to the aid of Verwoerd and started administering cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Verwoerd was rushed to Groote Schuur Hospital, but was declared dead upon arrival.
Tsafendas escaped the death penalty on the grounds of insanity. Judge Beyers ordered Tsafendas to be imprisoned indefinitely.
Verwoerd's state funeral, attended by a quarter of a million people (mostly white), was held in Pretoria on 10 September 1966, during which his South Africa flag-draped casket was laid on an artillery carriage towed by a military truck. He was buried in the Hero's Acre.
