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.

A group of former SADF 61 Mech soldiers that fought in the Border war in Angola in the early eighties held a belated remembrance day event at the Ditsong National Museum of Military History in ...

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 ...