Chapter Dimitri Tsafendas Meets Dante, Friend and Witness of Our Time
Chariklia Martalas's "Eating John Vorster" brings to light the assassination of Hendrik Verwoerd, "the architect of Apartheid," by Dimitri Tsafendas. As an act of social responsibility, the author presents the intergenerational trauma of Apartheid to a transnational communit...
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