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Identity
Person No.
32250
Service No.
Unknown
Last Name
First Name
Moses Mhluleki
Initials
M M
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
22
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
Cause of Death
Died in Shooting Incident, while on patrol, he bent over his rifle to tie his shoelace, the gun went off, mortally wounding him in the chest
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Rifleman
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
SADF 3,848
South African Defence Force
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
Role at time of death
Infantry (area defence)
Status
Commando (Area Bound Reserve)
Part of
Same category as South African Commandos generally (OrgEntityID 5183, pass 2) -- Kruger National Park Commando is one specific named local Commando unit within that area-bound reserve system.
Notes

Son of Mrs. M. Nghoma

Research notes

SN CORRECTION 25 Aug 2026 (year-prefix method): ServiceNo 88742382HF cleared -- per the documented SA force-number convention (data/SA_SERVICE_NUMBER_NOTES.md), the prefix '88' implies registration circa 1988 (usually age 16), i.e. birth circa 1972. This record's own Age/DateDeath implies birth circa 1967, a mismatch; PersonNumber 32251 (Ngobeni, implied birth circa 1974) fits instead. Original value: "88742382HF". 26 Aug 2026: Unit leftover "South West Africa Police Counter-Insurgency Wing: Ops-K Division (KOEVOET)" → Kruger Park Game Reserve Commando (SAWGP Regiment, no Unit).
25 Sep 2026, Unit2 service-branch sweep: the stored Secondary Unit "Air Force" was CLEARED. It was not a sub-unit, it was a service-branch word, and it CONTRADICTED this record's own Branch, "Army". Across the roll 787 records carried such a contradiction; judged against Corps and Regiment -- independent of both columns -- the evidence backed Branch 744 times and Unit2 not once. Branch is therefore kept and the contradicting word removed. Nothing is guessed: this man's branch of service is already recorded, and his sub-unit, if any, is simply not known.

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