Transcending Verwoerd

Staff at the East Rand hospital where he was born in 1968 gave Panyaza Lesufi the first name Hendrik — after Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid who was assassinated in 1966. “That name was imposed on my parents,” Lesufi said in a 2007 interview, “but they could not pronounce it and I ended up being called Andrek”