- 2002 in South Africa
"See also:"
2001 in South Africa ,
other events of 2002,2002 in South African sport ,2003 in South Africa and theTimeline of South African history .----
Events
January
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29 January -Doctors Without Borders , an international humanitarian organisation, begins importing a cheap, generic version of patentedAIDS drugs intoSouth Africa in a direct defiance to South Africa's patent lawsMarch
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27 March - Health MinisterManto Tshabalala-Msimang approaches theConstitutional Court to stop the issuing ofnevirapine
*March -Sivan Pillay ,Ed Jordan ,Nkhensani Mangani and Karl Anderson are appointed as the first judges of major reality showCoca Cola Popstars , which yields two new pop groups, winners101 and runners-upAfro Z April
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26 April - ASouth African Air Force Impala jet crashes near the Albasini Dam betweenLouis Trichardt andMusina killing pilot Captain Brett BurmeisterMay
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20 May - Health MinisterManto Tshabalala-Msimang announces at theWorld Health Assembly inGeneva that South Africa pledges R20 million to the Global Fund to FightHIV /AIDS ,Tuberculosis andMalaria June
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16 June - TheHector Pieterson Museum became the first museum to open inSoweto
*27 June - TwoSouth African Air Force Atlas Oryx helicopters flying from the South African research ship Agulhas took emergency food supplies and evacuated 21Russia n scientists from the German-owned Magdalena Oldendorff which was trapped in ice offAntarctica since16 June July
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15 July -Nelson Mandela calls on government and business leaders worldwide to find ways to provide access to treatment to those people living withHIV /AIDS August
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8 August - The government announces the go-ahead for an anti-retroviral roll-out plan
*9 August -Ed Fagan leds a $50bn class action suit by a few apartheid-era victims against international firms and banks who profited from dealings withapartheid government
*25 August - The Medicines Control Council threatens to de-registerNevirapine unless further studies and appropriate documentation can show its efficacy in the prevention of mother to child transmission ofHIV eptember
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15 September -Johan Pretorius ,Boeremag member, is arrested and charged when he was found with a truckload of weapons and explosives inLichtenburg
*20 September - Boeremag members,Dirk Hanekom andHenk van Zyl , are arrested inMemel, Free State but only Hanekom is charged
*22 September - TheSouth African Air Force Museum's only flying T-6G Harvard crashes into power lines during a flypast at the Africa Aerospace and Defence 2002 being held atAFB Waterkloof ,Pretoria . Pilot Col Jeff Earle escaped with minor injuries.October
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10 October -State President of South Africa Thabo Mbeki states thatAIDS drugs are dangerously toxic to people and questions whetherHIV orpoverty is the true cause of Aids
*30 October - 9 bombs explode inSoweto and 1 inBronkhorstspruit . TheBoeremag claims responsibilityNovember
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4 November - AllegedBoeremag leaderTom Vorster arrested inPretoria for the October bombings
*22 November - A bomb explodes at theGrand Central Airport inMidrand ,Gauteng
*28 November - A bomb explodes on a bridge on the border betweenKwaZulu-Natal and theEastern Cape Province sDecember
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20 December - TheAfrican National Congress holds their 51st National Conference inStellenbosch Unknown date
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Mbongeni Ngema 's controversial song, "AmaNdiya" is bannedport
Athletics
* The national marathon championships are not held
Births
Deaths
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26 April -Steve Tshwete , activist and politician
*15 May -Nellie Shabalala , wife ofLadysmith Black Mambazo leader and founderJoseph Shabalala
*1 June -Hansie Cronje dies in a plane crash in the mountains near George
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