Stefanus , Jacob (J)

Cleared stolen ServiceNo 80264575BG (belongs to Steenkamp W.T. PN 33089, 4 SAI, 1984-01-04). | Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post 26 Sep 2025: Special Warrant Officer Jacob Stephanus, South West Africa Police Counter-Insurgency Wing: Ops-K Division (Koevoet), Killed in Action during a contact with SWAPO/PLAN insurgents in Northern Owamboland, age 39. ROH last name is Stefanus; age is 19 (not overwritten). | Also Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post 26 Sep 2023 (same anniversary names).
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 39 against this record's 19. This record has no date of birth, so there is nothing to adjudicate with. Flagged, not changed.
Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post 26 Sep 2026: "Special Warrant Officer Jacob Stefanus from the South West Africa Police Counter-Insurgency Wing: Ops-K Division (Koevoet) was Killed in Action during a contact with SWAPO/PLAN insurgents in Northern Owamboland. He was 39."
- AGE CONFLICT, FLAGGED FOR THE FOURTH TIME AND STILL NOT CHANGED. This record holds 19. Age 39 has now been given by Graham's Last Posts of 26 Sep 2023, 26 Sep 2025 and today, and independently by Mike Sandham's List 1 from the South African War Graves Project on 16 Sep 2026. That is two independent sources against a roll value with no source cited and no date of birth behind it; EstBirthYear 1966 is merely 1985 minus 19. The standing rule on this roll is not to overwrite on weight of opinion, so it stands -- but it is now the longest-running unresolved flag of its kind here and wants a decision.
26 Sep 2026: AGE CORRECTED from 19 to 39 on John's instruction, and EstBirthYear from 1966 to 1946 (1985 minus 39). The flag had stood since 2023 and was raised four times.
- The weight of source: 39 is given by Col (rt) Graham du Toit's Last Posts of 26 Sep 2023, 26 Sep 2025 and 26 Sep 2026, and independently by Mike Sandham's research log of 16 Sep 2026, credited to the South African War Graves Project. The stored 19 carried no source at all, and EstBirthYear 1966 was only ever 1985 minus 19 -- derived from the disputed figure, not evidence for it.
- The stored 19 is also contaminated, on this roll's own evidence. PersonNumbers 33088, 33089, 33090 and 33091 all carry Age 19 in an unbroken run; 33087 carries 45 and 33092 carries 24, so the run begins and ends cleanly. This record is the third in that run. It has ALREADY been shown to have inherited a value from 33089: the note at the head of this citation records a stolen ServiceNo, 80264575BG, cleared from here because it belongs to Steenkamp W.T. at 33089. The age is the same forward-fill through a second column.
- No date of birth is known, so 1946 is an estimate from the corrected age and is recorded as EstBirthYear, not as a date of birth.