1967 in South Africa

Incumbents

• State President: Charles Robberts Swart (until 31 May), Jozua François Naudé (starting 31 May)

Events

January

• – The African National Congress and the Zimbabwe African People's Union form an alliance for armed struggle against South Africa and Rhodesia.

June

• 12 – The Terrorism Act No. 83 is passed.

July

• 14-15 Snow falls in the Transvaal. The Northern Transvaal records its first snowfall.
• The Liberation Committee of the Organisation of African Unity urges freedom fighters to invade South Africa and South West Africa ^[1]

August

• 4 – Military conscription became compulsory for all white men in South Africa over the age of 16 ^[2]

September

• 8 – South African Police officially disclose that SAP counter-insurgency units are deployed in Rhodesia to counter Umkhonto we Sizwe ^[3]

December

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

Unknown date

• The South African Police starts with counter-insurgency training.
• Jozua François Naudé becomes acting State President of South Africa.
• Umkhonto we Sizwe members conduct their first military actions in north-western Rhodesia in campaigns known as Wankie and Sepolilo.
• The KGB double agent, Yui Loginov, is 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 (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, teacher and president of the African National Congress), is fatally injured at the age of 69 in an accident near his home.

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