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Identity
Person No.
29482
Service No.
Unknown
Last Name
Bojane 1
First Name
Motsamai William
Initials
M W
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1983 (±1 yr) 42
Age at Death
30
Death Record
Date of Death
23 March 2013 143
Cause code
KIA 14,780
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action 14,654
Killed in action, in a battle with Michel Djotodia's Seleka rebel coalition in the Central African Republic
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Rifleman
Regiment
Unit 44 13
Unit
1 Parachute Battalion insignia 1 Parachute Battalion 50
Secondary Unit
Army
Defence Force
SANDF 1,019
South African National Defence Force
Location
Country
South Africa 23,850
Locality
Gauteng 9,374
Cemetery
SADF WALL OF REMEMBRANCE, VOORTREKKER MONUMENT, PRETORIA 1,926
Grave Reference
Alternative Commemoration until grave found 1,612
Memorial
Memorial
Battle of Bangui Virtual Memorial
Location
Bangui, Central African Republic
Address
Bangui, Central African Republic
Coordinates
4.394, 18.558 · OpenStreetMap
Panel
Not listed against a numbered panel
On the panel
Position on the panel will be added with photographs
Memorial
Memorial
SADF Wall of Remembrance
Location
On a koppie at the Voortrekker Monument, overlooking Pretoria
Address
Voortrekker Monument, Eeufees Road, Groenkloof, Pretoria, 0181, South Africa
Coordinates
-25.77639, 28.17583 · OpenStreetMap
Panel
Not listed against a numbered panel
On the panel
Position on the panel will be added with photographs
Operation
Operation
Operation Vimbezela
Dates
2007 to 2013
About
SANDF training/support deployment in the Central African Republic, ended after the March 2013 Battle of Bangui and subsequent withdrawal.
Unit History
Role at time of death
Airborne light infantry (paratroops)
Status
Regular Force
Part of
44 Parachute Regiment
Still the SANDF’s only full-time parachute battalion. 44 Parachute Brigade was downsized to 44 Parachute Regiment in 1999.
Awards
Nkwe ya Boronse (Bronze Leopard)
Nkwe ya Boronse (Bronze Leopard) (NB)
South Africa
Posthumous. Citation written by Col W.L. Dixon; signed off by GOC SA Special Forces Brig Gen R. Maphwanya, C J Ops Lt Gen D.M. Mgwebi, and C SANDF/Minister/President. Medal register number: Nkwe Bronze 013.
Notes

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Research notes


16 Sep 2026, ServiceNo contamination sweep: the stored ServiceNo '94726734PE' was CLEARED. It was not a reading of this man's record. PersonNumbers 29481 to 29482 -- 2 consecutive records -- all carried the identical number, which belongs to the record at the head of that run (29481, Boihang, Thomas Kethame (T K)). A value repeated down an unbroken block of PersonNumbers is a forward-fill import artefact, not men who shared a service number; the pattern holds across 850 such runs on this roll and is independently confirmed by Mike Sandham's research log, which attaches such numbers to the head of the run 167 times against 6 contradictions (all examined). No replacement is guessed: this man's real service number is simply not known, and a blank field says so honestly where another man's number did not.

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