29 –
Doctors Without Borders, an international humanitarian organisation, begins importing a cheap generic version of patented AIDS drugs into South Africa in defiance of South Africa's patent laws.
February
9 –
Bulelani Vukwana, an off-duty security guard, kills ten people and wounds others during a shooting spree in
Mdantsane, near
East London. The massacre - triggered by a failed relationship - ends when Vukwana kills himself, surrounded by police.[2]
Sivan Pillay,
Ed Jordan, Nkhensani Mangani and Karl Anderson are appointed as the first judges of reality show Coca-Cola Popstars, which yields two new pop groups, winners 101 and runners-up Afro Z.
April
25 –
Mark Shuttleworth becomes the second self-funded spaceflight participant.
27 – Two
South African Air ForceOryx helicopters, flying from the South African Antarctic research ship Agulhas, takes emergency food supplies and evacuates 21 Russian scientists from the German-owned Magdalena Oldendorff which has been trapped in ice off Antarctica since 16 June.
July
15 –
Nelson Mandela calls on government and business leaders worldwide to find ways to provide access to treatment to people living with HIV/AIDS.
August
8 – The government announces the approval of an anti-retroviral roll-out plan.
9 –
Ed Fagan leads a $50bn class action suit by a few apartheid-era victims against international firms and banks who profited from dealings with the
apartheid government.
25 – 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 –
Johan Pretorius,
Boeremag member, is arrested and charged when he is found with a truckload of weapons and explosives in
Lichtenburg.
20 – Boeremag members Dirk Hanekom and Henk van Zyl are arrested in
Memel, Free State, but only Hanekom is charged.
10 –
President of South AfricaThabo Mbeki states that AIDS drugs are dangerously toxic to people and questions whether HIV or poverty is the true cause of Aids.
29 –
Doctors Without Borders, an international humanitarian organisation, begins importing a cheap generic version of patented AIDS drugs into South Africa in defiance of South Africa's patent laws.
February
9 –
Bulelani Vukwana, an off-duty security guard, kills ten people and wounds others during a shooting spree in
Mdantsane, near
East London. The massacre - triggered by a failed relationship - ends when Vukwana kills himself, surrounded by police.[2]
Sivan Pillay,
Ed Jordan, Nkhensani Mangani and Karl Anderson are appointed as the first judges of reality show Coca-Cola Popstars, which yields two new pop groups, winners 101 and runners-up Afro Z.
April
25 –
Mark Shuttleworth becomes the second self-funded spaceflight participant.
27 – Two
South African Air ForceOryx helicopters, flying from the South African Antarctic research ship Agulhas, takes emergency food supplies and evacuates 21 Russian scientists from the German-owned Magdalena Oldendorff which has been trapped in ice off Antarctica since 16 June.
July
15 –
Nelson Mandela calls on government and business leaders worldwide to find ways to provide access to treatment to people living with HIV/AIDS.
August
8 – The government announces the approval of an anti-retroviral roll-out plan.
9 –
Ed Fagan leads a $50bn class action suit by a few apartheid-era victims against international firms and banks who profited from dealings with the
apartheid government.
25 – 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 –
Johan Pretorius,
Boeremag member, is arrested and charged when he is found with a truckload of weapons and explosives in
Lichtenburg.
20 – Boeremag members Dirk Hanekom and Henk van Zyl are arrested in
Memel, Free State, but only Hanekom is charged.
10 –
President of South AfricaThabo Mbeki states that AIDS drugs are dangerously toxic to people and questions whether HIV or poverty is the true cause of Aids.