1967 in South Africa

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See also: 1966 in South Africa, other events of 1967, 1968 in South Africa and the Timeline of South African history.

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Contents 1 Events 1.1 December 1.2 Unknown date 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

December

• 3 December - Professor Christiaan Barnard carries out the world's first heart transplant at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town

Unknown date

• The Terrorism Act No 83 is passed
• Jozua François Naudé becomes the 2nd State President of South Africa

Births

Deaths

• 2 July - Professor I.W. van der Merwe (Boerneef), writer and poet, dies in Cape Town at the age of 70
• 21 July - Albert John Lutuli, a South African teacher and politician (president of the African National Congress), is fatally injured at the age of 69 in an accident near his home