ref. SANDF 1998 Roll of Honour
26 Aug 2026: Unit leftover "1 Special Service Battalion" → H.Q. (SAWGP Unit).
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".
Database-wide FirstName/Age contamination sweep (extension), 28 Sep 2026: FirstName 'Laurie Johannes (lollo)' and Age 19 were forward-filled from PersonNumber 31315 down a contiguous run of 3 records -- this record's own LastName ('Leshabane'), Initials ('M D'), ServiceNo ('94671054') and DateDeath ('1998-10-01') are all genuinely distinct, confirming a different real person whose FirstName/Age were simply never captured. Unlike the first pass of this sweep, Unit is NOT touched here -- it is not part of this contamination (see the Unit-restoration correction on the related run) and this record's own Unit ('H.Q.') is left exactly as found. FirstName and Age CLEARED; no replacement guessed.
1 Oct 2026: Age 24 filled (was blank), from Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post, 1 Oct 2026: "94671054 Private M.D. Leshabane from Army Headquarters was shot dead by a member of the South African Police in Pretoria. He was off duty at the time of the incident. He was 24." Initials "M D" and cause already matched exactly.
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