1967 in South Africa

"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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Events

January

* January - The African National Congress and the Zimbabwe African People's Union form an alliance for armed struggle against South Africa and Rhodesia

July

* 14-15 July - Snow falls in the Transvaal. The Northern Transvaal records its first snowfall.

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
* The South African Police starts with counter-insurgency training
* Jozua François Naudé becomes the 2nd State President of South Africa
* Nine months conscription for all white males start
* Umkhonto we Sizwe, the military wing of the African National Congress, members conduct their first military actions in north-western Rhodesia in campaigns known as Wankie and Sepolilo
* The South African Police units deploy in Rhodesia to counter Umkhonto we Sizwe, the military wing of the African National Congress

Births

* 9 January Gary Teichmann, rugby player, is born in Gwelo, Zimbabwe

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