This year marks the 20th anniversary of the opening of the battle of Cuito Cuanavale, in south-eastern Angola, which pitted the armed forces of apartheid South Africa against the Cuban army and ...

The legacies of apartheid in South Africa can only be understood by making sense of the complexities of the past. This includes recognising what those who were young during the apartheid era - and who ...

Johannesburg — THE Battle of Cuito Cuanavale, in the remoteness of southeast Angola 20 years ago was, in the words of Nelson Mandela, "a turning point for the liberation of our continent and my people ...

There are more lies and distortions about the battle of Cuito Cuanavale, on all sides, than any other recent event in Southern African history. Let’s start with the Cubans. In International Brigades ...

Beginning as what was essentially a war for independence for Namibia and Angola, the South African Border War started in 1966. The South African Defence Force (SADF), entered the war on the side of ...

If you can prove that the SADF had its heart set on taking Cuito Cuanavale, you may credibly argue that the South Africans wanted to use it as a springboard for an advance on Luanda. It often happens ...

Until the fall of the Portuguese dictatorship in 1974, apartheid in South Africa was secure. There was no substantial resistance anywhere in southern Africa. Pretoria’s neighbors comprised a buffer ...

The 62 suspected mercenaries just released from jail in Zimbabwe are people whose lives have been determined by being trapped on the wrong side of history. For 30 years, they have been caught up in ...