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Identity
Person No.
29489
Service No.
94781390PE
Last Name
First Name
Michael Mxolisi
Initials
M M
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
32
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
ACC 1,595
Accident
Cause of Death
Died in Freak Accident, at Tempe, as a result of a backwards landing which caused a fatal head injury during a parachute jump
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Lance Corporal
Regiment
Unknown
Defence Force
SANDF 1,041
South African National Defence Force
Memorial
Memorial
Location
On a koppie at the Voortrekker Monument, overlooking Pretoria
Address
Coordinates
Panel
Not listed against a numbered panel
On the panel
Position on the panel will be added with photographs
Notes

Son of Mr. and Mrs. P. Bongoza, of Kokstad.

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".
10 Oct 2026: UNIT CONFLICT, NOT CHANGED: stored Unit "35 Squadron (Army)" (an odd label -- 35 Squadron is a SAAF maritime patrol squadron, not an Army unit); Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post, 10 Oct 2026, instead names "1 Parachute Battalion", which fits this record's own cause of death (a parachute-jump accident) far better. No contamination signature found in neighbouring records (33022-33034 all hold genuinely distinct, unrelated units), so not cleared as confirmed contamination -- flagged for review instead.
10 Oct 2026: Unit changed from "35 Squadron (Army)" to "1 Parachute Battalion", per John's instruction, on Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post, 10 Oct 2026. Fits this record's own cause of death (parachute-jump accident) far better than the previous value.

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