- 2003 in South Africa
"See also:"
2002 in South Africa ,
other events of 2003,2003 in South African sport ,2004 in South Africa and theTimeline of South African history .----
Events
January
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17 January ,Jacob Zuma ,Deputy President of South Africa hold ceasefire talks withPierre Nkurunziza , the leader of a faction of theNational Council for the Defense of Democracy-Forces for the Defense of Democracy (CNDD-FDD)
*21 January - Jacob Zuma, hold ceasefire talks withAlain Mugabarabona , the leader of thePalipehutu-FNL andJean-Bosco Ndayikengurukiye , the leader of the other faction of CNDD-FDD
*24 January - The Inkwazi (theSouth African Air Force Boeing Business Jet ) while on a flight taking PresidentThabo Mbeki toParis ,France develops technical problems during its inaugural flight and had to turn back
* 25-26 January - Jacob Zuma facilitates meetings betweenPierre Buyoya , the
President of Burundi and rebels Alain Mugabarabona, Jean-Bosco Ndayikengurukiye and Pierre Nkurunziza inPretoria
*27 January - Pierre Buyoya, the President of Burundi and Pierre Nkurunziza, leader of a faction of the CNDD-FDD of sign a memorandum of understanding in PretoriaMarch
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21 March - The Truth and Reconciliation Commission releases its final reportApril
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1 April - The defence ministers of South Africa,Ethiopia andMozambique announce inAddis Ababa that their countries will send 3,500 peacekeeping troops toBurundi within 60 days under theAfrican Union flag
** AnSouth African Air Force Cheetah C fighter jet crashes nearLouis Trichardt , pilot Major Andrea Serra, ejected safelyMay
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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 disabilitiesJune
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PJ Powers andSibongile Khumalo is awarded the 2002 Reconciliation Award by theInstitute for Justice and Reconciliation
* The name of the townLouis Trichardt to changed to Makhado
*5 June - AnSouth African Air Force Denel Oryx helicopter crash lands atDurban International Airport and the crew suffer only minor injuries
*6 June -Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma ,Celso Amorim andYashwant Sinha foreign ministers of South Africa,Brazil andIndia , met inBrasilia ,Brazil and sign theBrasilia Declaration August
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6 August - A NationalAIDS Conference is held inDurban
*14 August - South Africa signs for four Super Lynx helicopters for operation from the new naval corvettes
*28 August - Three parachuted pallets dropped by aSouth African Air Force Casa 212 during a training mission are blown off course and land into a residential suburb of Gauteng causing mior damageeptember
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17 September - The 5thWorld Parks Congress is held inDurban October
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2 October - The firstSouth African Air Force BAE Hawk 120 (serial 250) makes its maiden flight atBAE Systems ’Warton, Fylde
*7 October - The South African Justice Ministry officials announced that the five policemen who were accused of killingSteve Biko in 1977 would not be prosecuted because of insufficient evidence
*8 October -Domitien Ndayizeye , President of Burundi andPierre Nkurunziza , the leader of a faction of theNational Council for the Defense of Democracy-Forces for the Defense of Democracy (CNDD-FDD) sign an agreement to integrate the armed forces, the police and intelligence services ofBurundi , inPretoria under the facilitation ofThabo Mbeki ,President of South Africa andJacob Zuma ,Deputy President of South Africa
* 15-18 October - Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa, hold bilateral talks withAtal Bihari Vajpayee ,Prime Minister of India while on a state visit toIndia
*17 October - The first South African Air Force BAE Hawk 120 (serial 250) arrives in South Africa inside anAntonov An-22
*19 October - The South African Competitions Commission finds two giantpharmaceutical companies,GlaxoSmithKline andBoehringer-Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals guilty ofprice fixing anti-retroviral drugsNovember
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12 November - ASouth African Air Force Impala MKI jet trainer crashes next to the N4 highway betweenNelspruit andKomatipoort . Both pilots, Lieutenant Paul Martin and Lieutenant Gert Duvenhage, while trying to do an emergency landing on the highway, aborted to avoid an oncoming truck and ejected but were both killed (one hitting the truck).December
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11 December - TheSea Point ,Cape Town home ofAsher Karni , anIsrael i andSouth Africa n businessman who is alleged to have supplied nuclear technology toPakistan , is raided by policeUnknown date
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Sewsunker "Papwa" Sewgolum receives a posthumous achievement award from PresidentThabo Mbeki port
Athletics
* The annual national marathon championships are not held
Births
Deaths
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