See also: 2002 in South Africa, other events of 2003, 2004 in South Africa and the Timeline of South African history.

Events

March

• 21 March - The Truth and Reconciliation Commission releases its final report

May

• 13 May - The Health Minister, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang presents her budget speech to the National Assembly outlining that free health care will be extended to people with disabilities

June

• PJ Powers and Sibongile Khumaloinis is awarded the 2002 Reconciliation Award by the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation

August

• 3 - 6 August - A National AIDS Conference is held in Durban

September

• 7 - 17 September - The 5th World Parks Congress is held in Durban

October

• 7 October - The South African Justice Ministry officials announced that the five policemen who were accused of killing Steve Biko in 1977 would not be prosecuted because of insufficient evidence
• 19 October - The South African Competitions Commission finds two giant pharmaceutical companies, GlaxoSmithKline and Boehringer-Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals guilty of price fixing anti-retroviral drugs

Unknown date

• Sewsunker "Papwa" Sewgolum receives a posthumous achievement award from President Thabo Mbeki

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Deaths