A year before the assassination, two people had reported Tsafendas to the South African police as a dangerous Communist, and one of them had even characterised him as "the biggest communist in the Republic of South Africa". Edward Furness, a South African who had met Tsafendas in London, told the police that Tsafendas closely associated with prominent members of the anti-apartheid movement in London and that he had admitted to him that he wanted "to create a resistance to the regime of South Africa" and that he was willing to do "anything that would get the South African regime out of power". Evidence was also submitted to the Commission of Enquiry into Verwoerd's death that in London, Tsafendas had attempted to "recruit people to take part in an uprising in South Africa". None of those documents, along with anything that had to do with Tsafendas's political ideas and activism, was allowed to see the light of day.