Verwoerd grandson escapes stabbing

44 years after his famous grandfather was stabbed to death in Parliament…
Journalist Scoop Cloete of Sondag newspaper writes that Hendrik Verwoerd junior, a grandson of the assassinated South African prime-minister Hendrik Verwoerd, nearly died in exactly the same way as had his famous grandfather: a suspected carthief had tried to stab young Verwoerd on Sunday 5 September 2010 – one day short of 44 years after Verwoerd senior was stabbed to death on 6 September 1966 in Parliament by uniformed parliamentary messenger Dimitri Tsafendas...http://www.sondag.co.za/artikels/Nuus/SKOKAANVAL

Verwoerd junior, a bank manager at Kleinfontein Savings & Loan in the Afrikaner-kibbutz of Kleinfontein, was guarding cars at the Afrikaans Protestant Church Rayton/Cullinan on 5 September 2010.

He’s a deacon at the church where members take turns guarding the cars in the church parking-lot, said his friend Ben Geldenhuys, president of the Paardekraal Verkenners (scouts) movement.

Verwoerd confirmed the incident in an interview with Sondag. He said he had caught three black men outside the church, trying to steal a BMW belonging to a parishioner. The organist alerted the congregation: he stood up and shouted that there were ‘thugs on the church-ground’. Ten members rushed outside and when his friend Ben Geldenhuys confronted the black men, one had tried to stab Verwoerd with a screw-driver before fleeing. Ten burly Afrikaners set off in hot pursuit, together with members of the community-security group Conserv. The rest of the story on: http://www.sondag.co.za/artikels/Nuus/SKOKAANVAL

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