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Events

March

• 4 March – Ian Syster wins his first national title in the men's marathon, clocking 2:13:30 in Durban.
• 18 March - The Department of Health declines the offer of a large donation of HIV test kits made by Guardian Scientific Africa Incorporated

April

• 5 April - George Bizos is awarded the 2001 International Trial Lawyer Prize of the Year by the International Academy of Trial Lawyers
• 11 April - Pfizer Inc., a pharmaceutical company, agrees to supply AIDS patients attending public hospitals with an unlimited two-year supply of Fluconazole
• 30 April - South Africa and India sign a declaration of intent on co-operation in health and medicine

June

• 11 June - The Maloti-Drakensberg Transfrontier Conservation Area is signed into existence
• 12-15 June - President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, visits the United Kingdom on a state visit.

September

• 1 September - 8 September - Durban hosts the World Conference against Racism

October

• The name of Gaza-Kruger-Gonarezhou Transfrontier Park is changed to the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park
• 4 October - The first 40 (including 3 breeding herds) of a planned 1000 elephants is translocated from the over-populated Kruger National Park to the war-ravaged Limpopo National Park
• 9 October - The second South African National Census is held

December

• 4 December - Marike de Klerk, ex-wife of Frederik Willem de Klerk is murdered in her flat in Cape Town.

Unknown date

• The New National Party leaves the Democratic Alliance

Deaths

• 13 August — Fanie du Plessis (71), South African athlete (b. 1930)

See also

• 2000 in South Africa
• 2002 in South Africa
• Timeline of South African history