Historical Organization
University of Cape Town
University of Cape Town
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Organization Timeline
A human heart is transplanted in Cape Town
📅 3 December 1967Barnard led a large Groote Schuur Hospital team in the first human-to-human heart transplant.
Louis Washkansky receives a donor heart
📅 3 December 1967The patient was given the heart of Denise Darvall, who had died after a road accident.
An entire hospital team supports the operation
📅 3 December 1967Nurses, surgeons, anesthetists, technicians and laboratory staff were needed for the procedure.
A transplant milestone occurs under apartheid
📅 3 December 1967The surgery was performed in South Africa’s segregated medical system; its wider social context belongs in the history.
A protest against the Rhodes statue begins a campus reckoning
📅 9 March 2015Student Chumani Maxwele protested at the Cecil Rhodes statue at the University of Cape Town, helping initiate the Rhodes Must Fall campaign. Students connected the colonial monument to wider...
The University of Cape Town removes the Rhodes statue
📅 9 April 2015The Cecil Rhodes statue was removed from its prominent campus position after a month of mobilization. Rhodes Must Fall supporters treated the removal as part of a larger struggle over institutional...