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A question of madness : the furiosus /
In Capetown, South Africa, in September 1966, Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid, was stabbed to death in Parliament. The course of South African history was changed by the assassin, Dimitri Tsafendas, who was written off as mad and condemned to twenty eight years of impriso...
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| Format: | Electronic Video |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Filmakers Library,
2001.
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| Series: | Filmakers Library online.
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| Summary: | In Capetown, South Africa, in September 1966, Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid, was stabbed to death in Parliament. The course of South African history was changed by the assassin, Dimitri Tsafendas, who was written off as mad and condemned to twenty eight years of imprisonment. A Question of Madness tells the extraordinary human story of a man, born of a black mother, but classified white, who travelled the world in hopeless search of sanctuary - eventually returning to the land of apartheid to wreak vengeance on the one who symbolised the racism which had haunted his life. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (52 min.) |
| Audience: | For College; Adult audiences. |
| Awards: | African Studies Association, 2000 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
| Accessibility Note: | Closed captioning in English |