2001 in South Africa

	2001 in South Africa
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	2001 in South African sport
List of years in South Africa

Incumbents

• President: Thabo Mbeki
• Deputy President: Jacob Zuma

Events

March

• 18 – The Department of Health declines the offer of a large donation of HIV test kits made by Guardian Scientific Africa Incorporated.

April

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

June

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

September

• 1–8 – Durban hosts the World Conference against Racism.

October

• 4 – The first 40 of a planned 1000 elephants, including 3 breeding herds, are translocated from the over-populated Kruger National Park to the war-ravaged Limpopo National Park.
• 9 – The second South African National Census takes place.
• The name of the Gaza-Kruger-Gonarezhou Transfrontier Park is changed to the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park.

December

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

Unknown date

• The New National Party withdraws from the Democratic Alliance.

Deaths

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

Railways

Locomotives

• The first of seventeen Class 7E3, Series 1 and Series 2 dual-cab electric locomotives, rebuilt by Spoornet to single-cabs, enter service reclassified to Class 7E4.

Sports

Athletics

• 4 March – Ian Syster wins his first national title in the men's marathon, clocking 2:13:30 in Durban.