Identity
Person No.
32153
Old ROH no.
1025
Service No.
81553539SP
Last Name
First Name
Peter William Hayfeni
Initials
P W H
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
29
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
FF 52
Friendly fire
Cause of Death
Died in Friendly Fire Incident. He was used as a guide for External Operations. During Ops Olyfhout, two SAAF Impala Jets were unfortunately tasked on a search and destroy mission over this same area although the area had been classified as a "frozen area". The Aircraft picked up the tracks and later came across the vehicles which were immediately strafed with 30mm canon. Rifleman Hayfeni Naikaku was hit in the head and killed instantly. A Buffel and a Kwevoel were also destroyed
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Rifleman
Regiment
32 (Buffalo) Battalion 275
Later renamed
32 Battalion
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
SADF 3,852
South African Defence Force
Location
Country
Locality
Grave Reference
Memorial
Memorial
Location
Within the Voortrekker Monument heritage precinct, Pretoria
Address
Coordinates
Panel
On the panel
No. 78
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
Notes
No additional information known at this time
Research notes
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".
Citations
Unknown
External References
- South African War Graves Project open source ↗
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The War in Angola
open source ↗
War In Angola Roll of Honour, page 25: gives full first name "Haefeni" vs ROH initials "P W H" (SN 81553539SP matches exactly) — confirmed match, not overwritten.
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