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.

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, ...

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, ...

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 was April 1960, a bright South African autumn day, and the grand opening of the Rand Show at Milner Park - Johannesburg's huge, prestigious annual agricultural show. As prize cattle paraded in the ...

About 10 years ago I spent a night in HF?Verwoerd’s holiday house in Betty’s Bay. How this came about is a story for a different day. The cottage, perched on the dunes and overlooking the ocean, was ...

At Johannesburg’s Witwatersrand University, a young South African lecturer in chemistry publicly turned his back on his country. Said David Rosseinsky, 28: “Call it running away if you like, but ...