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Hamilton Naki
Hamilton Naki was born in the small village of Ngcangane in the Eastern Cape in His family was poor and after completing primary school he left for Cape Town to look for employment.
Hamilton naki biography
At the age of fourteen he was hired by the University of Cape Town to maintain the tennis courts on the university grounds, at this stage Naki had his standard 6 (grade 8). In he was promoted to helping with the care of laboratory animals.
He soon progressed from cleaning cages to more advanced laboratory work.
Naki was one of four highly talented technicians in the research laboratory at the medical school, during the time that Chris Barnard performed the first heart transplant on a human subject on the 03 December
Although Naki did learn how to perform transplants on animals in the laboratory, he was never involved in surgery on human subjects.
Under Apartheid Hamilton was disadvantaged because he was barred from working in the Whites-only operating theatre, and his contributions in