granddaughter-in-law of the Verwoerd who was the prime minister. In 1992, Verwoerd's widow, Betsie Verwoerd, moved to Orania, the Afrikaner settlement founded by her son-in-law. She was visited by the first democratically elected president of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, at her home in 1995. On the 50th anniversary of Verwoerd's assassination in 2016, some in South Africa argued that Tsafendas should be regarded as an anti-apartheid hero. Many major roads, places and facilities in cities and towns of South Africa were named after Verwoerd; in post-apartheid South Africa, there has been a campaign to take down statues of Verwoerd and rename buildings and streets named after him. Famous examples include H. F. Verwoerd Airport in Port Elizabeth, renamed Port Elizabeth Airport, the Verwoerd Dam in the Free State, now the Gariep Dam, H. F. Verwoerd academic hospital in Pretoria, now Steve Biko Hospital, and the town of Verwoerdburg, now Centurion. Gross cautioned that he felt the campaign against Verwoerd as the "architect of apartheid" was going too far in the sense that it was too convenient to blame all the wrongs and injustices of apartheid on one man who was designated as being especially evil, stating that many people were involved in creating and maintaining the apartheid system. Gross concluded that blaming everything on Verwoerd was in effect excusing the actions of everyone else who supported apartheid. Depiction on coins Verwoerd is depicted on the obverses of a pair of .800 fine Silver 1 Rand coins dated 1967, which was struck to commemorate him. Footnotes Notes Citations External links 1901 births 1966 murders in South Africa 1966 deaths Afrikaner people Apartheid government Assassinated heads of government Assassinated South African politicians Deaths by stabbing in South Africa Dutch emigrants to South Africa Members of the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa Members of the Senate of South Africa National Party (South Africa) politicians People murdered in South Africa Prime Ministers of South Africa Shooting survivors South African anti-communists Stellenbosch University alumni Academic staff of Stellenbosch University