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Identity
Person No.
35964
Service No.
Unknown
Last Name
Matsoso 1
First Name
Petrus
Initials
P
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1976 (±1 yr) 106
Age at Death
27
Death Record
Date of Death
14 December 2003 108
Cause code
DOW 2,733
Died of wounds
Cause of Death
Stabbed to death while walking home 1
Stabbed to death while walking home. Captain Ernest Mayiki said Petrus Matsoso had gone to the Vuka festival which took place at Rose Garden Park. He was walking past the Goodyear Park stadium near his flat when he was assaulted by a man with a knife. Matsoso was stabbed in the chest and died instantly
Military Service
Rank
Constable
Regiment
Unknown
Unit
Free State 217
Secondary Unit
South African Police
Defence Force
SAP 3,731
South African Police
Location
Country
South Africa 23,859
Locality
Gauteng 9,374
Cemetery
SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE MEMORIAL, PRETORIA (UNION BUILDINGS) 3,115
Grave Reference
Alternative Commemoration until grave found 3,111
Memorial
View from north with city in background Photographer: Francois Swanepoel - 2017
Memorial
South African Police Memorial
Location
In the gardens of the Union Buildings, on the eastern flank of the grounds, Pretoria
Address
Union Buildings, Government Avenue, Pretoria, 0002, South Africa
Coordinates
-25.74196, 28.21375 · OpenStreetMap
Panel
Not listed against a numbered panel
On the panel
Position on the panel will be added with photographs
Notes

ref. Gallantry Awards of the South African Police 1913-1994

Research notes


16 Sep 2026, ServiceNo contamination sweep: the stored ServiceNo '0454379-3' was CLEARED. It was not a reading of this man's record. PersonNumbers 35963 to 35964 -- 2 consecutive records -- all carried the identical number, which belongs to the record at the head of that run (35963, Matsoe, Modiidi Elmond (S M)). 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.

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