Excerpts from Books and Wikipedia
"The South African Prime Minister Hendrick Frensch Verwoerd was fatally stabbed during a session of Parliament in Cape Town, in front of hundreds of witnesses. . . . He had overseen much of the legislation that had established apartheid. He had also been responsible for a whites-only referendum establishing the Republic of South Africa, which led to the countries expulsion from the Commonwealth. . . . The motives of his assailant, parliamentary messenger Demetrio Tsafendas, were obscure." [Furtado: 1001 Days]