Passing the flame
Dimitri Tsafendas as a child, far left, and left, the photograph of his late father, Cretan-born engineer and anarchist Michalis Tsafantakis, which Tsafendas carried in his wallet on the day he stabbed Verwoerd. Dousemetzis writes in his book: “Michalis often said that he should never have married, but should have been a rebel … there was an unbreakable bond — a blood tie, but an ideological one too — between father and son.”