Identity
Person No.
32056
Service No.
97063812
Last Name
First Name
Motsemoholo Joseph
Initials
M P
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
19
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
SHOT 546
Shot
Military Service
Branch
Air Force
Rank
Airman
Regiment
Defence Force
SANDF 1,026
South African National Defence Force
Location
Country
Locality
Grave Reference
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
Part of
South African Air Force (organigram)
category
Notes
Ref SANDF 1998 RoH
Research notes
Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post 18 Jan 2026: 97063812 Airman M P Mphatso, Air Force Gymnasium, killed in a non-military related shooting incident while off duty, age 19. ROH unit was Koevoet (regiment already SAAF); first names Motsemoholo Joseph kept; age was 23.
25 Sep 2026, Unit2 service-branch sweep: the stored Secondary Unit "Air Force" 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 "Air Force".
Citations
Unknown
External References
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Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post
Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post 18 Jan 2026: 97063812 Airman M P Mphatso, Air Force Gymnasium, killed in a non-military related shooting incident while off duty, age 19. ROH unit was Koevoet (regiment already SAAF); first names Motsemoholo Joseph kept; age was 23.
- South African War Graves Project open source ↗
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