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Identity
Person No.
31653
Service No.
97091763
Last Name
First Name
Unknown
Initials
M M
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
25
Death Record
Cause code
DIS 6,081
Died of disease
Cause of Death
Died of Medical Reason, at Potchefstroom, while off duty
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

Ref SANDF 1998 RoH

Research notes

26 Aug 2026: Unit leftover "32 (Buffalo) Battalion" → School of Tactical Intelligence (SAWGP Unit).
4 Sep 2026: Regiment leftover "SA Army" cleared -- that's the service branch (Army, as distinct from Navy/Air Force), not a specific regiment; the actual unit ("School of Tactical Intelligence") is already captured in Unit. Per John's decision, the 52 records with no better Unit info were left as-is.
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".
30 Sep 2026: POSSIBLE IDENTITY CONTAMINATION, NOT CHANGED: DB Name reads "Masedi, Jabulani David (M M)" -- FirstName "Jabulani David" does not match Initials "M M". Mike Sandham (SAWGP)/Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post, 30 Sep 2026, both independently give initials only: "97091763 Lance Corporal M.M. Masedi from the School of Tactical Intelligence died of disease in Potchefstroom. He was 22." ServiceNo and Unit match exactly; DB Age 25 vs source Age 22 also conflicts. Consistent with the FirstName/Age contamination pattern found elsewhere in the DB (see 28 Sep sweep, 8f0b654/f4fa822, and the Eric B/41 fix this same pass) but not cleared here since this is a single record, not a confirmed contiguous run -- flagging for human review rather than assuming.
30 Sep 2026: CONFIRMED CONTAMINATION, PARTIALLY CORRECTED. FirstName "Jabulani David" CLEARED -- it belongs to Masango, Jabulani David (31651, Initials J D), two rows above; this record's own Initials are "M M", a clear mismatch, and Mike Sandham (SAWGP)/Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post, 30 Sep 2026, both independently give initials only: "97091763 Lance Corporal M.M. Masedi from the School of Tactical Intelligence died of disease in Potchefstroom. He was 22." ServiceNo and Unit already match exactly, corroborating the same man. Age NOT changed: still shows 25, shared with neighbours 31651 and 31652 too (same forward-fill signature) -- Sandham/Graham's 22 recorded as a conflict per this file's existing precedent (see Prins 32584, 28 Sep), not applied, since it is not established these two accounts do not share the same underlying secondary source.

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