The following lists events that happened during 2002 in South Africa. Incumbents President: Thabo Mbeki. Deputy President: Jacob Zuma. Chief Justice: Arthur Chaskalson. Cabinet The Cabinet, together with the President and the Deputy President, forms part of the Executive. National Assembly Provincial Premiers Eastern Cape Province: Makhenkesi Stofile Free State Province: Winkie Direko Gauteng Province: Mbhazima Shilowa KwaZulu-Natal Province: Lionel Mtshali Limpopo Province: Ngoako Ramathlodi Mpumalanga Province: Ndaweni Mahlangu North West Province: Popo Molefe Northern Cape Province: Manne Dipico Western Cape Province: until 3 June: Peter Marais 3 June-21 June: Piet Meyer since 21 June: Marthinus van Schalkwyk Events January 29 – Doctors Without Borders, an international humanitarian organisation, begins importing a cheap generic version of patented AIDS drugs into South Africa in defiance of South Africa's patent laws. March 27 – Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang approaches the Constitutional Court to stop the issuing of Nevirapine. Sivan Pillay, Ed Jordan, Nkhensani Mangani and Karl Anderson are appointed as the first judges of reality show Coca-Cola Popstars, which yields two new pop groups, winners 101 and runners-up Afro Z. April 25 – Mark Shuttleworth becomes the second self-funded spaceflight participant. 26 – A South African Air Force Impala Mk I jet crashes near the Albasini Dam between Louis Trichardt and Musina, killing pilot Captain Brett Burmeister. May 20 – Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang announces at the World Health Assembly in Geneva that South Africa pledges R20 million to the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. June 16 – The Hector Pieterson Museum becomes the first museum to open in Soweto. 27 – Two South African Air Force Oryx helicopters, flying from the South African Antarctic research ship Agulhas, takes emergency food supplies and evacuates 21 Russian scientists from the German-owned Magdalena Oldendorff which has been trapped in ice off Antarctica since 16 June. July 15 – Nelson Mandela calls on government and business leaders worldwide to find ways to provide access to treatment to people living with HIV/AIDS. August 8 – The government announces the approval of an anti-retroviral roll-out plan. 9 – Ed Fagan leads a $50bn class action suit by a few apartheid-era victims against international firms and banks who profited from dealings with the apartheid government. 25 – The Medicines Control Council threatens to de-register Nevirapine unless further studies and appropriate documentation can show its efficacy in the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV. September 15