1967 in South Africa
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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.
Railways
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Sports
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References
- ↑ http://www.sahistory.org.za/dated-event/sap-fighting-zimbabwe
- ↑ Kalley, J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds) (1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood
- ↑ http://www.sahistory.org.za/dated-event/sap-fighting-zimbabwe