By Mike Smith
5th of September 2016
You know that we all know that roughly 50 years ago in 1966 Dr. Hendrik French Verwoerd was assassinated with a dagger by a half-breed Greek/Coloured Communist “lone nutter”, Dimitri Tsavendas posing as a cleaner in parliament.
…But trust the liberal leftist media to remember, record and rejoice the exact minute when that first thrust was made into his heart from behind by the cowardly Tsavendas. 14:14.
50 years ago when the first dagger stab was in the heart of Dr. Verwoerd
I didn’t even know that they have his blood stained shirt and blazer on display to fawn over, but they do.
All I have is my own research of a wonderfully intelligent and remarkable man. The best leader South Africa ever had and probably will ever have.
Opening Pandora’s Apartheid box – Part 20- Dr. Verwoerd, Nationalist Visionary, “The most hated man in South Africa” and the success of Nationalism
I finished that article with the following words:
“But Dr Verwoerd does not need any statue of himself. By the time he died he built his own monument which is there for all to see: The Republic of South Africa…”
‘Nuff said.
If you notice his stab wounds and compare it to what Special Forces soldiers of the day were taught, then it becomes clear that the assassin was not taught by the KGB, but by the CIA or MI6.
Back in those days they believed that the best way to penetrate the heart was from the top by the shoulder, where the collarbone is and thrust the dagger diagonally inwards towards the heart hoping to sever the main arteries like the aorta and puncture the heart.
Of course this is totaly out of date today and probably the reason why Tsavendas had to stab so many times. The length of the blade had to be known to be sure.
Oh my God how we have come a long way. Today it is all an exact science. You cannot just hope you are going to hit a target, you have to be 100% certain.

However, any real specialist knows that to kill a sentry from behind is ONE MOVEMENT made up of three. I don’t think I have ever seen it described online.
So here goes in a stabbing assasination:
The type of weapons is very important. Forget all the Rambo Survival knives and bullshit. In the dark you cannot even find the sharp edge or the blunt edge.
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The British Fairbairn-Sykes Comando knife. |
My personal favourite is the Swiss army dagger known as the BökerAbout its Nazi history we will not go into detail. Let us just say that the Nazis had fantastic weapons, were very intelligent and one should not throw out the dagger with the bath water.
In all honesty, for me the Fairbairn-Sykes proved a bit short to do the job and light on the blade and heavy on the shaft. In fact it is supposed to be “so-balanced” , but I won’t run it down completely. It is a good knife; just not for me...albeit I have it sewed into the inside of my forecarmcof my favourite jacket.
Some online amateurs complain it was the bluntest knife they ever ordered. Of course the Fairbairn-Sykes was and still is delivered completely blunt to the operative.
Point is that if you don’t know how to sharpen your own knife you should not be an operative. Duh.
I am not an operative/operator . Mine was handed to me already sharp by my grandfather, a Boer who fought on the side of the English in Abyssinia, North Africa and Italy against fascism and against the Nazis.
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The Swiss Böker |
I don't know what he thought...He gave it all to me at the age of ten. Of course I don’t have any medals of my own today apart from my own Pro Patria that was posted to me eight months after I was on the border, as a “By the way thank you”.
Somehow my granddad wanted ME to have these medals and none of his own sons of which he had two.
Nevertheless where was I???
Cut all the bullshit and let us return to how we were taught in the army.
You want to learn what?.Killing people with a dagger from behind....And you want to learn that from a Ballie like me?
Remember this is one movement at the end of the day and you have to train this a thousand times before the muscle memory sets in and it becomes automatic. Not ONE, not THREE...ONE MOVEMENT!!!!
It is like tying a shoelace. In the beginning you have to remember every stroke. Today nobody even thinks about how to tie a shoelace; they simply do it.
The technique is like this for righties: Reverse for lefties. ….
You sneak up dead on to the sentry from behind.Clasp over his mouth and nose from the bottom of his jaw upwards with the left hand to smother any noise.
With your right foot you step into the back of his knee (die mik van sy knie) to bring him down. Sometimes you have to do it standing up from behind, but the principle remains the same.
Then you thrust the knife with surgical precision into his neck from the right side of his neck towards the left, exactly parallel to the ground and slightly in front of the vertebrae but behind the windpipe.
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The Cresssi Sub Borg |
However, I do not take lives anymore, I rescue lives and as a qualified rescue diver, the knife that is my daily dive buddy today is the Cressi Sub Borg. Best diving knife in the world. Attached up-side down to the left of my BC on my inflation hose, it is always within reach. Cressi Sub BorgIt is so handy that I have actually attached an exact replica to my 72hr bug out bag. Speaking of which…what was it I was trying to rescue again? Whites in South Africa, wasn’t it?
Message to Kaffir...You touch any of my family in South Africa...I will fare into the streets tonight and by Six AM tommorrow morning there will be a thousand of you lying dead in the, streets. I dare you. Push me.