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	Hamilton Naki; S. African helped in first heart transplant - The Boston Globe
		CAPE TOWN -- Hamilton Naki, a former gardener who was so skilled in complicated surgery that he helped in the world's first heart transplant -- but had to keep his work secret in apartheid South Africa -- has died.
		Naki to be on the backup team in what became the world's first successful heart transplant, in 1967.
		Naki was especially known for teaching medical students to perform intricate liver transplants on pigs, a procedure said to be more complicated than human heart transplants.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2005/06/13/hamilton_naki_s_african_helped_in_first_heart_transplant (400 words)

	Hamilton Naki
		Hamilton Naki was a part of the team that undertook the work's first heart transplant at Groote Schuur Hospital in 1967.
		Naki was born in 1926 to a poor family in Ngcingane, a small village in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.
		Naki was selected by Robert Goetz of the Medical Faculty to work in the clinical laboratories where he would help care for the laboratory animals.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/h/ha/hamilton_naki.html (273 words)

	Hamilton Naki - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hamilton Naki (26 June 1926 – 29 May 2005) was a teacher, trainer, and surgical assistant of Dr Christiaan Barnard who undertook the world's first heart transplantation at Groote Schuur Hospital, South Africa, in 1967.
		Naki was born in 1926 to a poor family in Ngcingane, a small village in the Eastern Cape.
		Naki was selected by Robert Goetz of the Medical Faculty, while working as a gardener, to work in the clinical laboratories, where he helped by caring for the laboratory animals; Goetz first asked him to help him hold a giraffe while he operated.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hamilton_Naki (607 words)

	AFRICAN BY NATURE® Presents Common Sense Newsletters - The remarkable Hamilton Naki
		Naki was born in 1926 in Ngcingane, a small village in the Eastern Cape.
		Hamilton arrived at work at 6am come rain, shine, or strike and no matter how far he had to travel he almost never missed a day." This was no mean feat for a man with no running water, no electricity, no car and often no bus because of strikes.
		Naki, after conceding that his African assistant was able to perform liver, lung and heart transplants on animals, on his own, which no other doctor in the world was capable of carrying out," Barnard said of Naki decades later.
	www.africanbynature.com /newsletters/hamiltonnaki.html (1470 words)

	Blueswami - Hamilton Naki - Hamilton Naki Obituary
		Blueswami - Hamilton Naki - Hamilton Naki Obituary
		On DECEMBER 3rd, 1967, the body of a young woman was brought to Hamilton Naki for dissection.
		Mr Naki coped admirably, and was taken on: at first to cages, then to hold and anaesthetize the animals, then to operate on them.
	www.blueswami.com /Naki.html (961 words)

	History News Network
		Naki's skills were so esteemed that medical authorities "quietly looked the other way" despite his fl skin.
		Naki, who was said to be 78 when he died on May 29 in a fl township in Cape Town, was a skilled self-taught surgeon, versed in the argot and techniques of transplants despite leaving school at 14.
		Naki was not even in Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, where the surgery took place, according to former colleagues.
	www.hnn.us /roundup/entries/14814.html (509 words)

	Hamilton Naki- A Medical Giant Departs \| Nigerian Village Square (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Hamilton Naki was born in South Africa in the village of Ngcangane in the Eastern Cape.
		It was Hamilton Naki who on that fateful day on December 3 1967 that performed the crucial cardiac surgery of retrieving the heart of Ms Denise Duvall in the Groote Schuur hospital and passing it to Christiaan Barnard who then transplanted the heart.
		Hamilton Naki retired in 1991 and drew a gardeners pension of the equivalent of $ 275.
	www.nigeriavillagesquare.com /content/view/1181/55 (1388 words)

	Electronic Monday Paper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Born in 1926 in the district of Centani in the Transkei, Naki was first employed at UCT as a gardener.
		Naki assisted with this research, which Barnard was to take into the clinical setting at Groote Schuur Hospital, and continued to work on heart, liver, kidney and other transplant research during this pioneering period.
		"Hamilton Naki was a proud and distinguished member of UCT and it gave me and many others great pleasure that his work was recognised through several appropriate and prestigious awards.
	www.uct.ac.za /news/emp/index.php?id=2428 (513 words)

	bpion
		AMILTON Naki, 76, is a soft-spoken, unassuming pensioner from Centani.
		And vital to the Barnard team was Hamilton Naki -- a man of incredible skill, entirely self-taught, who overcame a complete lack of education to be appointed Barnard's principal surgical assistant.
		Naki initially acted as Barnard's anaesthetist, where he impressed the heart surgeon with his enthusiasm and an incredible ability to learn, despite his lack of formal education.
	www.dispatch.co.za /2002/08/05/features/BPION.HTM (879 words)

	The Scotsman - Obituaries - Hamilton Naki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		HAMILTON Naki was a labourer who became a self-taught surgeon of such skill that Dr Christiaan Barnard chose him to assist in the world's first human heart transplant, but his contribution was kept secret for three decades because he was a fl man in apartheid-era South Africa.
		Hamilton Naki was born around 1926 in a poor, rural village in Transkei.
		As a fl man, Naki could not operate on the donor for the pioneering technique, Denise Darvall, even though she was dead.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /obituaries.cfm?id=650722005 (608 words)

	Olumide Ogunremi: Hamilton Naki- A Medical Giant Departs
		Hamilton Naki was born in South Africa in the village of Ngcangane in the Eastern Cape.
		It was Hamilton Naki who on that fateful day on December 3 1967 that performed the crucial cardiac surgery of retrieving the heart of Ms Denise Duvall in the Groote Schuur hospital and passing it to Christiaan Barnard who then transplanted the heart.
		Hamilton Naki retired in 1991 and drew a gardeners pension of the equivalent of $ 275.
	www.nigeriavillagesquare1.com /Articles/orems/2005/07/hamilton-naki-medical-giant-departs.html (1604 words)

	BlackNews.com - South African Gardener-Turned-Heart Surgeon Dies At 78
		Naki, a fl man who left high school because his family couldn't afford the fees, took his first job at the age of 14, cutting grass at the University of Cape Town.
		Naki was especially known for teaching medical students to perform intricate liver transplants on pigs, a procedure said to be more complicated than human heart transplants.
		Naki himself said that he hoped to set an example to young people to benefit from opportunities in the new multiracial, democratic South Africa that he was denied.
	www.blacknews.com /pr/hamilton101.html (463 words)

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		Naki's contribution was a criminal offence under the apartheid laws because he was fl and the patient was white.
		"Hamilton Naki had joined Cape Town University and Groote Schuur Hospital as a gardener, and was rolling the grass tennis courts when, in the 1950s, the professor of surgery, Robert Goetz, asked him to step into the laboratory and hold a giraffe on which he was operating.
		"Hamilton Naki was born in Ngcingane, a village near Centani in Transkei, to a poor family and was educated to sixth grade.
	www.banneroftruth.org /pages/articles/article_detail.php?827 (992 words)

	Surgeon who doubled as a gardener dies - World - theage.com.au
		Mr Naki was born in 1926 in the Transkei region of the Eastern Cape.
		Mr Naki's innate skills in handling animals and his steady, dexterous hands impressed the surgeons, and he was soon slicing, stitching and using drips on the animals.
		Professor Barnard, with his toothsome smile and dashing air, became an international celebrity overnight; Mr Naki, the fl man who was by his side during the surgery, remained officially a gardener at the university, although he was quietly appointed a laboratory assistant in the medical faculty.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2005/06/06/1117910238774.html (559 words)

	Hamilton Naki
		Professor Chris Barnard and his medical team performed the operation, but Hamilton Naki, who assisted Professor Barnard during the pioneering of the procedure, and on subsequent heart transplants, was left publicly unacknowledged for decades.
		Hamilton Naki was born in the small village of Ngcangane in the Eastern Cape in 1930.
		Hamilton was barred from studying medicine, and practicing it in the whites-only operating theatre, even if he had obtained formal qualifications.
	home.intekom.com /southafricanhistoryonline/pages/people/naki-h.htm (469 words)

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		Hamilton Naki's courage and achievements as a fl man under the apartheid government and severe distribution community showed that he had done the works not only for his own development in his life, but also for giving hopes to fl people around the world that they could success someday like Naki.
		Naki had been ignored as the cleaner in the university though he taught many students in medical department.
		Naki was the man who was fl, and man of lack in normal education, but with his endeavor efforts, the history approves his contribution to the surgical development.
	www.englishcode.com /bbs/view.php?id=eng_5&page=3&sn1=&divpage=1&sn=off&ss=on&sc=on&select_arrange=subject&desc=desc&no=125 (754 words)

	iafrica.com \| news \| sa news 'Self-taught surgeon' honoured
		Hamilton Naki (77), who was born in the Centani district of the Transkei, joined UCT as a gardener in 1954 before becoming an assistant in its surgical research laboratory.
		Naki, who retired from the university in 1991, had been "an extraordinary teacher and surgical craftsman", Dent said.
		Naki, who received an honorary master of medicine degree from UCT chancellor Graca Machel, said he was proud to get the award.
	www.iafrica.com /news/sa/247008.htm (321 words)

	Hamilton Naki; forced to conceal surgical skills Chicago Sun-Times - Find Articles
		Naki, a fl man who left high school because his family couldn't afford the fees, took his first job at age 14, cutting grass at the University of Cape Town.
		Naki to be on the backup team in what became the world's first successful heart transplant, in December 1967.
		Naki was especially known for teaching medical students to perform intricate liver transplants on pigs, a procedure said to be more complicated than human heart transplants.
	www.looksmartwomensports.com /p/articles/mi_qn4155/is_20050613/ai_n14717256 (483 words)

	Surgeon who doubled as a gardener dies - World - theage.com.au
		Mr Naki was born in 1926 in the Transkei region of the Eastern Cape.
		Mr Naki's innate skills in handling animals and his steady, dexterous hands impressed the surgeons, and he was soon slicing, stitching and using drips on the animals.
		Professor Barnard, with his toothsome smile and dashing air, became an international celebrity overnight; Mr Naki, the fl man who was by his side during the surgery, remained officially a gardener at the university, although he was quietly appointed a laboratory assistant in the medical faculty.
	theage.com.au /articles/2005/06/06/1117910238774.html (559 words)

	Hamilton Naki -- Richmond 330 (7506): 1511 -- BMJ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Hamilton Naki -- Richmond 330 (7506): 1511 -- BMJ
		Naki's contribution was a criminal offence under the apartheid
		Hamilton Naki was born in Ngcingane, a village near Centani
	bmj.bmjjournals.com /cgi/content/full/330/7506/1511 (864 words)

	Nephelim: Nero e invisibile
		Hamilton Naki è morto il 29 maggio, a 78 anni: era il chirurgo autodidatta che aiutò Christian Barnard a trapiantare un cuore umano nella notte del 3 dicembre 1967, al Groote Shuur Hospital.
		Hamilton Naki era nato nel 1926 da una povera famiglia di Ngcangane, un piccolo villaggio dell’Eastern Cape, tra pascoli e colline affacciati sull’Oceano Indiano.
		Naki continuò a fare il giardiniere all’università: puliva i parchi.
	www.nephelim.net /archives/2005/06/nero_e_invisibi.html (859 words)

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		Hamilton Naki was born, most likely in 1926, in a poor, rural village in Transkei, a largely fl former British protectorate in what is now South Africa's Eastern Cape Province.
		Naki is survived by several children, and many grandchildren and great-grandchildren, according to the reports in overseas news media.
		Naki was awarded the Order of Mapungubwe, one of South Africa's highest honors, for outstanding contribution to medical science.
	www.assatashakur.org /forum/printthread.php?t=7123 (740 words)

	Sowetan 19 June 2003 - Green fingers in a theatre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Hamilton Naki was born to parents in small village of Ngcangane in Eastern Cape.
		Due to the then political dispensation Naki was barred both from studying to be a doctor and from the whites-only operating theatre.
		Naki is set to serve as an inspiration far beyond the borders of South Africa.
	www.sahistory.org.za /pages/people/naki-green-fingers.htm (836 words)

	Hamilton Naki; Self-Taught Surgeon Aided Heart Transplant
		Hamilton Naki, a former gardener who was so skilled in complicated surgery that he helped in the world's first human heart transplant -- but had to keep this secret in apartheid South Africa -- died May 29 at his home near Cape Town.
		Naki left school without qualifications and found his first job at age 14 cutting grass and tending the tennis courts at the University of Cape Town.
		Naki to be part of the backup team in what became the world's first successful heart transplant, in December 1967.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/12/AR2005061201517.html (788 words)

	Hamilton Naki, 78, Self-Taught Surgeon, Dies - New York Times
		Hamilton Naki was born, most likely in 1926, in a poor, rural village in Transkei, a largely fl former British protectorate in what is now South Africa's Eastern Cape Province.
		Naki is survived by several children, and many grandchildren and great-grandchildren, according to the reports in overseas news media.
		Naki was awarded the Order of Mapungubwe, one of South Africa's highest honors, for outstanding contribution to medical science.
	www.nytimes.com /2005/06/11/obituaries/11naki.html?ex=1276142400&en=e207ab4f35d203d0&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (746 words)

	bookofjoe: BehindTheMedspeak: Hamilton Naki — The surgeon who never was
		Naki, as usual, caught the bus home to his one–room shack, without electricity or running water, in the fl township of Langa.
		Naki's obituary, describing the astounding life of an extraordinary man whom Barnard admitted was probably a better surgeon that he was, appeared in the June 9 Economist; it follows.
		Our obituary of Hamilton Naki (BMJ 2005;330:1511) claimed that Mr Naki, a former gardener, had directly assisted Christiaan Barnard in the world's first heart transplant, and that he was the unsung hero of this pioneering work, who was denied due recognition at the time because of South Africa's apartheid system.
	www.bookofjoe.com /2005/06/behindthemedspe_9.html (1421 words)

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