1967 in South Africa

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	1967 in South Africa
1964 1965 1966 « 1967 » 1968 1969 1970
Years in South Africa

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
• The KGB double agent, Yui Loginov, was arrested in South Africa after the CIA betrayed him

Births

• 9 January — Gary Teichmann, rugby player
• 10 June — Karen Roberts, field hockey player

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