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Identity
Person No.
31933
Service No.
96208970PV
Last Name
Mlotywa 1
First Name
Bheki Willie John
Initials
B W J
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1980 (±1 yr) 67
Age at Death
20
Death Record
Date of Death
08 September 2000 100
Cause code
DOAS 7,466
Died on active service
Cause of Death
Died on active service 6,447
Critically injured when his Samil 20 overturned at Mitchells Plain while returning to the Unit. Rushed to 2 Military Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries a short while later.
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Rifleman
Regiment
9 South African Infantry Battalion 22
Corps
South African Infantry Corps 10,347
Unit
Unknown
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 (Seaborne)
Status
Permanent Force (Regular)
Part of
Infantry Formation (SAAIF) — Seaborne Infantry — Regular
Listed under South African Army Infantry (Seaborne) (Regular) in the SA Army Units navbox.
Notes

No additional information known at this time

Research notes


8 Sep 2026: CauseDeath enriched from generic "Died on active service" using Graham du Toit's Last Post detail (Samil 20 rollover, Mitchells Plain, taken to 2 Military Hospital). Age discrepancy: Graham says 26, this record's own Age is 20 -- flagged, not changed.
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 26 against this record's 20. This record has no date of birth, so there is nothing to adjudicate with. Flagged, not changed.
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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