He served as Prime Minister of South Africa from 1958 until he was stabbed to death by an assassin in 1966. Van 1958 tot 1966 was hij premier van Zuid-Afrika. Tsafendas, while working as a parliamentary messenger, stabbed Verwoerd to death during a sitting of the House of Assembly in Cape Town.

Dimitri Tsafendas was a Greek-Mozambican lifelong political militant and the assassin of Prime Minister of South Africa Hendrik Verwoerd on 6 September 1966. A crowd of 30,000 watches Prime Minster Hendrik Verwoerd at the mundane task of inspecting livestock - completely unaware of impending tragedy. Dr. Verwoerd became the towering statesman of the 20th Century and he is equal, if … Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd (8 September 1901 - 6 September 1966) was Prime Minister of South Africa from 1958 until his assassination in 1966. He was the second child of Anje Strik and Wilhelmus Johannes Verwoerd. Verwoerd was born in the Netherlands and emigrated at age two with his parents to South Africa. Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on 8 September 1901. Hij wordt beschouwd als de belangrijkste vormgever van het apartheidssysteem in Zuid-Afrika. His father was a shopkeeper and a deeply religious man who decided to move to South Africa in 1903 because of his sympathy towards the Afrikaner nation after the South African War. Then it happens - … Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd (Amsterdam, 8 september 1901 – Kaapstad, 6 september 1966) was een Zuid-Afrikaans staatsman van Nederlandse komaf. Hendrik Verwoerd, South African professor, editor, and statesman who, as prime minister (1958–66), rigorously developed and applied the policy of apartheid, or separation of the races. Hendrik Verwoerd led South Africa through her most difficult stage of development from a dependent British Dominion to a respected and powerful force in the global arena. A brilliant scholar at the University of When Verwoerd was three months old, his family migrated to South Africa.