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Identity
Person No.
31925
Service No.
10748945KD
Last Name
Mkhwanazi 9
First Name
Jeffrey Siyafana
Initials
J S
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1974 (±1 yr) 208
Age at Death
20
Death Record
Date of Death
22 September 1994 100
Cause code
KIA 14,779
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action 14,655
Killed in action, during operations against enemy forces
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Rifleman
Regiment
South African Commandos 98
Corps
South African Infantry Corps 10,347
Unit
Insele Commando 1
Defence Force
SANDF 1,025
South African National Defence Force
Location
Country
South Africa 23,874
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
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
Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry (area defence)
Status
Commando (Area Bound Reserve)
Part of
SADF Commando System category
Part of
Group 27
Generic Regiment-field text used across hundreds of records whose actual unit is a specific local Commando (e.g. Rustenburg Commando, Boksburg Commando -- captured in Unit). Post-WWII, "Commando" is its own force-component category alongside Regular/Permanent Force and Active Citizen Force -- area-bound, part-time reserve units tied to a specific district, mobilised for local counter-insurgency/area protection duties during the Border War era. Not a single regiment; this Status applies to the whole category.
Notes

***Might be last name MKOSHI. No additional information known at this time

Research notes


Mike Sandham's research log ("List 1"), imported 16 Sep 2026, credited to The South Africa War Graves Project unless his entry says otherwise: gives Age 23 against this record's 20. This record has no date of birth, so there is nothing to adjudicate with. Flagged, not changed.
Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post 22 Sep 2026: "10748945KD Rifleman Jeffrey Siyafana Mkhwanazi from the Insele Commando was killed when his Buffel Troop Carrier overturned at Mtubatuba during a motorised patrol. He was 23." AGE CONFLICT flagged, not changed: Graham 23, this record 20.
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".

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