ref. SANDF 1998 Roll of Honour
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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