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The South African Border War, also known as the Namibian War of Independence, and sometimes denoted in South Africa as the Angolan Bush War, was a largely asymmetric conflict that occurred in Namibia (then South West Africa), Zambia, and Angola from 26 August 1966 to 21 March 1990.
Południowoafrykańska wojna graniczna (afr. Suid-Afrikaanse Grensoorlog lub Grensoorlog, ang. South African Bushwar lub South African Border War) – konflikt trwający od 1966 do 1990 w Południowo-Zachodniej prowincji RPA (obecnie Namibia) i Angoli, zakończony wyparciem Kubańczyków z Angoli, oraz niepodległością Namibii.
Operation Savannah was the South African code name for their military incursion into Angola in 1975–1976. It was part of the South African Border War and arose due to the Angolan War of Independence. The operation also materially influenced the subsequent Angolan Civil War.
22 lut 2016 · The book A Far-Away War: Angola 1975 - 1989, about the war waged by apartheid South Africa against its neighbour, has attracted the attention of historians and those who fought in it.
How the Angolan army and its Cuban allies defeated the South African forces at Cuito Cuanavale in 1988, leading to the independence of Namibia and the fall of apartheid. Read the analysis by Horace Campbell and Ronnie Kasrils, who participated in the war.
Relations between Angola and South Africa in the post-apartheid era are quite strong as the ruling parties in both states, the African National Congress in South Africa and the MPLA in Angola, fought together during the Angolan Civil War and South African Border War.
12 mar 2015 · Reading South African accounts of the 23-year long Border War between South Africa and the Angolan liberation movement UNITA on the one hand, and the Angolan government and army, supported by...
