Hamilton Naki , a laborer who became a self-taught surgeon of such skill that Dr. Christiaan N. Barnard chose him to assist in the world 's first human heart transplant in 1967 , but whose contribution was kept secret for three decades because he was a black man in apartheid-era South Africa , died on May 29 at his home in Langa , near Cape Town .
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