I believe that is just hearsay on an unidentified badge.
The South African Service Corps did indeed have an early badge of an eight pointed star but the central device was the Union coat-of-arms with the full title 'South African Service Corps' above and 'Zuid Afrikaanse Intendans' below.
This was worn as a cap and collar badge and there is photographic evidence of this. It was worn in the Union, and GSWA.
With the Expeditionary force in GEA, the SASC wore the standard General service cap badge and unique SASC collar badges. An oval shape representing a steering wheel with gloved hands on either side and the letters S A above and S C below.
As a side note, there are very few South African Badges that came with a slider, so in my opinion, that is one indication that it is not an SA badge. Other thoughts is that why would anyone go to the lengths to create such a badge for a small corps that already has a designed badge. And finally all the original evidence recording South African badges going back to the 1940's have never shown this badge. It appeared on the net sometime in the 2000's.
It is either a completely fictitious item or is attributable to some other countries ASC (Like Sudan ASC or Singapore ASC, if such existed) . If someone does however have some real evidence that it is indeed South African, than that will be appreciated.
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