Christiaan Barnard

Christiaan Barnard transplanted the first heart in 1967. Pictures of Barnard were circulated in the world's press, and so did his numerous love affairs. In an exclusive portrait, Rose Kern shows the late surgeon's world: his parents' house at Beaufort West, where his father did missionary work for the coloured population, his animal husbandry farm right in the heart of South Africa, and Cape Town, the city where he staged his medical triumphs.