04 December, let us pause to remember these young men from our Generation who answered the Sunset call.
04 Dec 1978: 76464025BG Sapper Jacobus Cornelius Francois Cloete from the SWA Engineer Support Unit SWATF was accidentally killed during construction work at Grootfontein when a concrete block fell from a scaffold and struck him on the head, killing him instantly. He was 19.
04 Dec 1987: 77881050SP Rifleman Antonio Dala from 32 Battalion was found murdered at Buffalo by persons unknown. He was 31.
04 Dec 1987: 82541483BT Private Abraham Samuel Jacobus Stander from 31 Field Workshop, Technical Service Corps was accidentally killed approximately 10km outside Grootfontein when he fell off the rear of a moving Samil 20 vehicle that was travelling on the road to Otavi. He was 21.
04 Dec 1992: 05535463PE Commandant Petrus Johannes Labuschagne from Regiment Noord Transvaal was killed in a private motor vehicle accident in Pretoria. He was 47.
Their names and sacrifice have not been forgotten.