LIVE AND LET LIVE

Time passes and sweeps people into it like a whirlpool. It eclipses hate, love, passion. And then we come along and we are ashamed to tell our story. In our story, in September 1966, the world community is shocked by the murder of South African Prime Minister hendrik Verwoerd during a parliamentary session. hendrik Verwoerd was essentially the architect of apartheid. The motives of the murder have never been made clear. The assassin was a “psychopath” of Greek descent by the name of Dimitrios Tsafendas. Tsafendas, who was never actually tried for his crime, lived the following years in the maximum security prison in Pretoria, and died forgotten in a psychiatric clinic in 1999. If we forget our values, if we forget what it means to be a human being, if we judge the person next to us by his color, by his smell or by whether he looks like us or not, then people like Mimis Tsafendas will change the course of history like gods, and we will be left to wonder: was he a madman or a hero?