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Professor Christiaan Barnard, the Head of the Cardio-Thoracic Surgery Department at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, performed the first human heart transplant in the world, on 03 December, 1967.
http://web.uct.ac.za/depts/cvru/tx/tx1hist.htm
Shaka Zulu: “Probably the most famous southern African in history, Shaka Zulu is known for his peerless leadership of the Zulu clan. He was a fierce and militaristic king”.
Read more at North Park University Chicago’s Africa South of the Sahara Chronology
Shaka Zulu (1987): directed by William C. Faure and starring Henry Cele as Shaka Zulu. Plot Summary: The true story of the life and rise to power of Shaka, the greatest Zulu leader in history.
Source: IMDb
2: the number drops of black mamba venom that can kill a person A mamba can have up to 20 drops of venom in its fangs.
Source: http://animal.discovery.com
Real Yellowwood (Podocarpus latifolius): South Africa’s national tree “is primeval and has been present in this part of Africa for more than 100 million years”.
http://www.gov.za/symbols/tree.htm
National Anthem of South Africa: the official version of the national anthem combines Nkosi sikelel' iAfrika and Die Stem / The Call of South Africa.
See lyrics and sheet music
South Africa's Bobotie
See recipe
One of the plural forms of Xhosa (a member of a Bantu people inhabiting the eastern part of Cape Province, South Africa and the Nguni language of this people, closely related to Zulu) is Amaxhosa.
Source: A Collection of Word Oddities and Trivia
John Maxwell Coetzee: winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2003, "who in innumerable guises portrays the surprising involvement of the outsider". “J.M. Coetzee’s novels are characterised by their well-crafted composition, pregnant dialogue and analytical brilliance. But at the same time he is a scrupulous doubter, ruthless in his criticism of the cruel rationalism and cosmetic morality of western civilisation”.
Source: Nobel e-Museum
24 June 1995: South Africa won the rugby union world cup not long after being welcomed back into international sport when apartheid ended. Few moments in sporting history have been more memorable than when the new South African President Nelson Mandela , wearing a Springbok jersey, handed over the William Webb Ellis Trophy to South African captain Francois Pienaar.
“I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal, which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die" (Nelson Mandela)
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