2002 in South Africa
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See also: 2001 in South Africa, other events of 2002, 2003 in South Africa and the Timeline of South African history.
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Events
January
- 29 January - Doctors Without Borders, an international humanitarian organisation, begins importing a cheap, generic version of patented AIDS drugs into South Africa in a direct defiance to South Africa's patent laws
March
- 27 March - Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang approaches the Constitutional Court to stop the issueing of nevirapine
May
- 20 May - Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang announces at the World Health Assembly in Geneva that South Africa pledges R20 million to the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
June
- 16 June - The Hector Pieterson Museum became the first museum to open in Soweto
July
- 15 July - Nelson Mandela calls on government and business leaders worldwide to find ways to provide access to treatment to those people living with HIV/AIDS
August
- 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 with apartheid government
- 25 August - The Medicines Control Council threatens to de-register Nevirapine unless further studies and appropriate documentation can show its efficacy in the prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV
September
- 15 September - Johan Pretorius, Boeremag member, is arrested and charged when he was found with a truckload of weapons and explosives in Lichtenburg
- 20 September - Boeremag members, Dirk Hanekom and Henk van Zyl, are arrested in Memel, Free State but only Hanekom is charged
October
- 10 October - State President of South Africa Thabo Mbeki states that AIDS drugs are dangerously toxic to people and questions whether HIV or poverty is the true cause of Aids
- 30 October - 9 bombs explode in Soweto and 1 in Bronkhorstspruit. The Boeremag claims responsibility
November
- 4 November - Alleged Boeremag leader Tom Vorster arrested in Pretoria for the October bombings
- 22 November - A bomb explodes at the Grand Central Airport in Midrand, Gauteng
- 28 November - A bomb explodes on a bridge on the border between KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape Provinces
December
- 16 - 20 December - The African National Congress holds their 51st National Conference in Stellenbosch
Unknown date
- Mbongeni Ngema's controversial song, AmaNdiya is banned
Sport
Athletics
- Mbulaeni Mulaudzi wins bronze in the 800 metres at the 13rd African Championships in Athletics held in Radés, Tunisia
Football (Soccer)
- 19 November - South Africa (Bafana Bafana) loses to Senegal 4-1 after drawing 1-1 and then losing 4-1 on penalties in the Nelson Mandela Challenge held in Ellis Park Stadium, Johannesburg
Births
Deaths
- 1 June - Hansie Cronje dies in a plane crash in the mountains near George
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