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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[edit] Events
[edit] January
- January - The African National Congress and the Zimbabwe African People's Union form an alliance for armed struggle against South Africa and Rhodesia
[edit] December
- 3 December - Professor Christiaan Barnard carries out the world's first heart transplant at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town
[edit] Unknown date
- The Terrorism Act No 83 is passed
- Jozua François Naudé becomes the 2nd State President of South Africa
[edit] Births
- 9 January Gary Teichmann, rugby player, is born in Gwelo, Zimbabwe
[edit] Deaths
- 20 May - Jan Gysbert Hugo Bosman (aka Bosman de Ravelli), concert pianist and composer, dies in Somerset West at the age of 85
- 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 teacher and politician (president of the African National Congress), is fatally injured at the age of 69 in an accident near his home
