Xaliphi , Mbuso Douglas (T)

Mike Sandham 20 Aug 2026 omissions: SANDF 1998 RoH DateDeath 1991-01-01 / Died on active service; Mike Date of Death 2 = 1991-12-31. DateDeath set to 1991-08-20 from Daily Dispatch 21 August 1991 (eight Ciskei Defence Force paratroopers drowned in the Fish River; sixteen jumped carrying 60 kg of equipment, ten landed in the water; official version a strong wind near the ground). Daily Dispatch 26 September 1991: conservation officer (ex-SADF Para) warned against dropping on a 150–200 m wetland strip; ignored; no safety precautions. Mail names seven; newspaper says eight — eighth not named, not invented. Gqozo, Autobiography of Oupa Joshua Gqozo (Europa Edizioni, 2022), ISBN 979-1220116589. Booksellers list a chapter: My Speech at the funeral of death of Seven Paratroopers who tragically died on Exercise training at Fish River. Speech text not retrieved. Google Books: https://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN9791220116589
16 Sep 2026, ServiceNo contamination sweep: the stored ServiceNo '95063434' was CLEARED. It was not a reading of this man's record. PersonNumbers 33912 to 33913 -- 2 consecutive records -- all carried the identical number, which belongs to the record at the head of that run (33912, Xaba, Mbuso Douglas (M D)). A value repeated down an unbroken block of PersonNumbers is a forward-fill import artefact, not men who shared a service number; the pattern holds across 850 such runs on this roll and is independently confirmed by Mike Sandham's research log, which attaches such numbers to the head of the run 167 times against 6 contradictions (all examined). No replacement is guessed: this man's real service number is simply not known, and a blank field says so honestly where another man's number did not.