2002 in South Africa

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

Events

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 transmisssion of HIV

September

• 15 September – A truck is found in Linchburg with weapons and other suppliers, Boeremag member, Lets Pretorius, is arrested and charged
• 20 September – Boeremag members, Dirk Hanekom and Henk van Zyl, are arrested in Memel 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

Births

Deaths

• 1 June – Hansie Cronje dies in a plane crash in the mountains near George