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See also: 2001 in South Africa, other events of 2002, 2002 in South African sport, 2003 in South Africa and the Timeline of South African history.

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Contents 1 Events 1.1 January 1.2 March 1.3 April 1.4 May 1.5 June 1.6 July 1.7 August 1.8 September 1.9 October 1.10 November 1.11 December 1.12 Unknown date 2 Births 3 Deaths

[edit] Events

[edit] 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

[edit] March

• 27 March - Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang approaches the Constitutional Court to stop the issueing of nevirapine

[edit] April

• 26 April - A South African Air Force Impala jet crashes near the Albasini Dam between Makhado and Musina killing pilot Captain Brett Burmeister

[edit] 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

[edit] June

• 16 June - The Hector Pieterson Museum became the first museum to open in Soweto
• 27 June - Two South African Air Force Atlas Oryx helicopters flying from the South African research ship Agulhas took emergency food supplies and evacuated 21 Russian scientists from the German-owned Magdalena Oldendorff which was trapped in ice off Antarctica since 16 June

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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
• 22 September - The South 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 at AFB Waterkloof, Pretoria. Pilot Col Jeff Earle escaped with minor injuries.

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] December

• 16 - 20 December - The African National Congress holds their 51st National Conference in Stellenbosch

[edit] Unknown date

• Mbongeni Ngema's controversial song, AmaNdiya is banned

[edit] Births

[edit] Deaths

• 26 April - Steve Tshwete, activist and politician
• 1 June - Hansie Cronje dies in a plane crash in the mountains near George