The Castro camp says the SADF's objective was to take the place, push westwards to Menongue, move into the Angolan midlands, and eventually take the capital, Luanda. The idea was to overthrow the MPLA ...

For a military battle whose outcome is still hotly contested 30 years later, the impact was so remarkably clear – independence for Namibia, peace for Angola and the death knell for apartheid.

Van Niekerk, who in the 1980s was in charge of a special SADF section dealing specifically with aid to Renamo, said the SADF also helped Renamo get rid of the men's bodies. Van Niekerk has been ...

How the SADF plotted to kill Thabo Mbeki. 23 December 2014 ... a seaborne unit that worked with the navy to hit targets as far away as Cabinda in Angola near the mouth of the Congo River. ...

Executive Outcomes became known in the 1990s for helping Angola’s government inflict defeats on the Unita rebels and Sierra Leone’s turn the tide against the notorious RUF rebels.

Through the rebels, he also got access to South African Defence Force (SADF) in southern Angola. He says that the chief of the SADF, General Jannie Geldenhuys, gave him unfettered access to his ...