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Identity
Person No.
32961
Service No.
90703521
Last Name
First Name
Unknown
Initials
S
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
Unknown
Death Record
Cause code
MVA 2,635
Motor vehicle accident
Cause of Death
Died in Military Vehicle Accident
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Private
Regiment
Unknown
Defence Force
SANDF 1,026
South African National 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
Notes

Ref SANDF 1997 RoH.

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".
Database-wide FirstName/Age contamination sweep (extension), 28 Sep 2026: FirstName 'Lucas Guluva' and Age 33 were forward-filled from PersonNumber 32960 down a contiguous run of 3 records -- this record's own LastName ('Simelane'), Initials ('S'), ServiceNo ('90703521') and DateDeath ('1997-02-16') are all genuinely distinct, confirming a different real person whose FirstName/Age were simply never captured. Unlike the first pass of this sweep, Unit is NOT touched here -- it is not part of this contamination (see the Unit-restoration correction on the related run) and this record's own Unit ('Grp 42 Provost Unit') is left exactly as found. FirstName and Age CLEARED; no replacement guessed.

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