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Identity
Person No.
37536
Service No.
451271-5
Last Name
Shabangu 7
First Name
Unknown
Initials
Z G
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1979 (±1 yr) 115
Age at Death
Unknown
Death Record
Date of Death
18 July 2003 359
Cause code
DUTY 1,421
Died on duty
Cause of Death
Died on duty (SAP) 1,378
Died in the execution of his duty as a member of the South African Police
Military Service
Rank
Sergeant
Regiment
Unknown
Unit
Unknown
Secondary Unit
South African Police Service
Defence Force
SAPS 1,739
South African Police Service
Location
Country
South Africa 23,874
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

Database-wide FirstName/Age/Unit contamination sweep, 28 Sep 2026 (John's hypothesis, tested and confirmed on 3 sample groups before running at scale): FirstName 'Mduduzi Titus', Age 24 and Unit 'Gauteng' were forward-filled from PersonNumber 37530 down a contiguous run of 11 records -- this record's own LastName ('Shabangu'), Initials ('Z G'), ServiceNo ('451271-5') and DateDeath ('2003-07-18') are all genuinely distinct from every other record in the run, confirming a different real person whose FirstName/Age/Unit were simply never captured (source pattern consistent with a SAPS memorial table using rowspan for Name/Age/Province, mis-copied by the scraper onto every row). FirstName, Age and Unit CLEARED; no replacement guessed. CauseDeath NOT touched -- it follows its own, narrower sub-block boundaries within this run and carries real distinguishing information.

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