Identity
Person No.
33297
Old ROH no.
1429
Service No.
81955924SWH
Last Name
First Name
Katopora
Initials
K
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
25
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
MVA 2,648
Motor vehicle accident
Cause of Death
Died in Military Vehicle Accident, when the Buffel Troop carrier in which he was traveling, overturned near Opuwa
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Rifleman
Regiment
102 Battalion 34
Formerly
37 Battalion
(1980)
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
SADF 3,856
South African Defence Force
Location
Country
Locality
Grave Reference
Memorial
Memorial
Location
On a koppie at the Voortrekker Monument, overlooking Pretoria
Address
Coordinates
Panel
On the panel
Position on the panel will be added with photographs
Notes
***Possibly 08 July 1982. 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
-
SADF.info Border Roll of Honour
open source ↗
SADF.info Border RoH
- South African War Graves Project open source ↗
-
The War in Angola
open source ↗
War In Angola Roll of Honour (warinangola.com, tabid=1175), pages 95-97 of 143: confirmed, no changes.
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