Reference code
ZA UCT BC1589
Title
Demitrios Tsafendas Psychiatric Papers
Date(s)
- 1944-1966 (Creation)
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Fonds
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One archival box comprising 13 folders
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Donated jointly in 2019 by the children of Dr Aubrey Zabow, Phillip Zabow, Frank Zabow, Louise Sebba and Steven Zabow.
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The papers were received or gathered by psychiatrist Dr Aubrey Zabow as a member of a panel of psychiatrists appointed by the defence team of Demitrios Tsafendas, who had been charged with the assassination of Dr Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd on 6 September 1966. The papers include the initial state medical and psychiatric reports; transcript of police interrogation and statement by Tsafendas; transcripts of the defence lawyer's initial interviews with Tsafendas; transcripts of psychiatric examinations by psychiatrists and a clinical psychologist appointed by the defence team; statements of witnesses; historical medical reports on Tsafendas from overseas and Somerset and Groote Schuur Hospitals; and published professional articles.
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A related archival collection in Special Collections is BVF15 Liza Key Collection. This includes extensive archival footage of interviews as well as transcripts created in researching a film about Demitrios Tsafendas, "The Furiosus" (alternative title "A Question of Madness").
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- Tsafendas, Demitrios, 1918-1999 (Subject)
- Zabow, Abraham Aubrey, Dr (Subject)