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Identity
Person No.
31534
Service No.
94971892
Last Name
First Name
Vusimusi Stephen
Initials
V S
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
19
Death Record
Cause code
Unknown
Cause of Death
Died of epileptic fit, at 4 SAI sickbay, while on duty
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Private
Regiment
Unknown
Defence Force
SANDF 1,026
South African National Defence Force
Memorial
Memorial
Location
On a koppie at the Voortrekker Monument, overlooking Pretoria
Address
Coordinates
Panel
Not listed against a numbered panel
On the panel
Position on the panel will be added with photographs
Unit History
Home Unit
Attached To
Role at time of death
Infantry (Motorised)
Status
Permanent Force (Regular)
Part of
Listed under South African Army Infantry (Motorised) (Regular) in the SA Army Units navbox.
Notes

ref. SANDF 1998 Roll of Honour

Research notes

26 Aug 2026: attachment attd. 4 South African Infantry Battalion.
4 Sep 2026: Regiment leftover "South African Personnel Services Corps" (a branch, not a specific regiment) moved to Corps, per John's decision on the broader Regiment/Corps field-swap review.
25 Sep 2026, Unit2 service-branch sweep: the stored Secondary Unit "Army" was CLEARED as a duplicate. It was not a sub-unit, it was a service-branch word repeating what the Branch column already says. Secondary Unit is for sub-units -- a company, a squadron, a commando -- and this record's branch of service is unchanged at "Army".
Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post 28 Sep 2026: "94971892 Private Vusimusi Stephen Malatji from the Personnel Service Corps attached to 4 SAI died after suffering an epileptic fit while in the 4 SAI Sickbay. He was 25." Confirms name, unit and cause exactly.
- AGE CONFLICT, NOT CHANGED: this record holds 19, Graham gives 25.
- SERVICE NUMBER COLLISION RESOLVED: 94971892 was also held by Mokwena, Matlhomola Sameul (31806), a different man at Army HQ on the same date. Today's post names this record's man explicitly by full name and unit; the number is cleared from 31806 as the wrong holder (see that record's own citation).
Mike Sandham (SAWGP) omissions email, 28 Sep 2026, under "Confusion - Multiple names/ages but same force no / similar cause?": gives this record (94971892, 4 SAI, Personnel Services Corps, epileptic fit, age 25) with SAWGP link https://www.southafricawargraves.org/search/details.php?id=31534 but appends "(Might be Mokwena)" -- Sandham's own research does not resolve whether this and PersonNumber 31806 (Mokwena, Army HQ, SA Artillery, age 23) are the same man or two different men, i.e. today's earlier two-way collision resolution (which cleared 94971892 from 31806 as the wrong holder) is NOT independently confirmed by this source -- it is, if anything, put back in question. Separately, Sandham quotes a Google AI Overview variant: "94971892 Corporal Vusimusi Stephen Malaza from 4 South African Infantry Battalion Died due to an epileptic fit at the 4 SAI sickbay. He was 19" -- this is not a new source, it corresponds to existing PersonNumber 31535 (Malaza, Vusimusi Stephen, age 19, no service number after the 16 Sep 2026 contamination sweep) and is an AI-generated summary, not treated as independent corroboration of anything. NOT REVERSING the 94971892 assignment made earlier today pending a human decision -- flagging only.

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