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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale, a heroic struggle in which, between October 1987 and June 1988, in some of the fiercest fighting in Africa since the Second World ...

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 ...