Killed in action, during a 5 Recce Regt pseudo mission as part of Operation Slyk.As per General Francisco Pereira Furtado, ex Chief of Staff, Angolan Armed Forces: "From consultations with former members of the 19 FAPLA Infantry Brigade in Mulondo, on the evening of 20/21 October 1983 with a reconnaissance group about 5 kilometres south of the defence position of Brigade, They confirm that when the presence of the reconnaissance group was discovered on the ground, the 19 Brigade artillery fired in the same area, followed by the advance of 3 T-55 tanks that probably caused the death or dispersal of the SADF military and the abandonment of their bodies on the ground. It is noteworthy that Mulondo is located in the Bicuar reserve with ferocious animals among lions, leopards, hyenas and other felines." From this it appears that the four soldiers may have died an honourable soldier's death in facing a superior force of the enemy, which included artillery and tanks. All four seems to have been killed in action