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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.
Thus, Angola attained official independence on 11 November 1975 and, while the stage was set for transition, a combination of ethnic tensions and international pressures rendered Angola’s hard-won victory problematic.
South African troops invade southern Angola with armoured vehicles and artillery, sweeping towards Luanda. 23 October 1975 South Africa deploys troops stationed in Namibia in support of the FNLA and UNITA.
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.
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,...
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.
Across the northern border of Namibia, tension had been brewing in Angola where liberation movements were waging their own independence struggle against Portuguese colonial rule.
The Angolan Civil War (Portuguese: Guerra Civil Angolana) was a civil war in Angola, beginning in 1975 and continuing, with interludes, until 2002. The war began immediately after Angola became independent from Portugal in November 1975.
In 1975–1976, South Africa’s apartheid regime took the momen-tous step of intervening in the Angolan civil war, endeavoring to thwart the Marxist Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) and its backers in Havana and Moscow.
South Africa's military involvement in Angola flowed, at root, from its failure, in alliance with the Portuguese,2 to stamp out the armed activity of the South West Africa People's Organisation (SWAPO) in northern Namibia in the late 1960s and early 1970s.