Africa, Brazil and India, meet in Brasilia, Brazil and sign the Brasilia Declaration. PJ Powers and Sibongile Khumalo are awarded the 2002 Reconciliation Award by the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation. The name of the town Louis Trichardt is changed to Makhado. July 31 – SABC shuts down Bop TV due to financial constraints. August 3–6 – A National AIDS Conference is held in Durban. 14 – South Africa signs a contract to acquire four new Super Lynx helicopters for operation from the new naval corvettes. 28 – Three parachuted pallets, dropped by a South African Air Force Casa 212 during a training mission, are blown off course and lands in a residential suburb of Gauteng, causing minor damage. September 7–17 – The 5th World Parks Congress is held in Durban. October 2 – The first South African Air Force BAE Hawk 120 (serial no. 250) makes its maiden flight at BAE Systems’ Warton, Fylde. 7 – South African Justice Ministry officials announce that the five policemen who were accused of killing Steve Biko in 1977 will not be prosecuted because of insufficient evidence. 8 – Domitien Ndayizeye, President of Burundi and Pierre Nkurunziza, the leader of a faction of the CNDD-FDD, sign an agreement in Pretoria under the facilitation of Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa and Jacob Zuma, Deputy President of South Africa, to integrate the armed forces, the police and intelligence services of Burundi. 15–18 – President Thabo Mbeki holds bilateral talks with Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Prime Minister of India, while on a state visit to India. 17 – The first South African Air Force BAE Hawk 120 (serial no. 250) arrives in South Africa inside an Antonov An-22. 19 – The South African Competitions Commission finds two giant pharmaceutical companies, GlaxoSmithKline and Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, guilty of price fixing anti-retroviral drugs. November 12 – A South African Air Force Impala Mk I jet trainer crashes next to the N4 highway between Nelspruit and Komatipoort. Pilots Lieutenant Paul Martin and Lieutenant Gert Duvenhage abort an emergency landing on the highway to avoid an oncoming truck and eject, but are both killed, one of them hitting the truck. December 11 – 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. Unknown date Sewsunker "Papwa" Sewgolum receives a posthumous