2003 in South Africa
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See also: 2002 in South Africa, other events of 2003, 2004 in South Africa and the Timeline of South African history.
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Events
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March
- 21 March - The Truth and Reconciliation Commission releases its final report
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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
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June
- PJ Powers and Sibongile Khumaloinis is awarded the 2002 Reconciliation Award by the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation
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August
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September
- 7 - 17 September - The 5th World Parks Congress is held in Durban
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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
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December
- 11 December - The Sea Point, Cape Town home of Asher Karni, an Israeli and South African businessman who is alleged to have supplied nuclear technology to Pakistan, is raided by police
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- Sewsunker "Papwa" Sewgolum receives a posthumous achievement award from President Thabo Mbeki
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Births
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