In September 1965, the first group of SWAPO insurgents (numbering only about seven men) moved across the thinly guarded Angola/SWA border and began attacking targets in northern South West Africa. These included a local administrative building, a local tribal headman suspected to be in the employ of the South Africans, and a Portuguese shop owner.

The People's Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN) was the military wing of the South West Africa People's Organisation (SWAPO). It fought against the South African Defence Force (SADF) and South West African Territorial Force (SWATF) during the South African Border War. [12]

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 …

2011年3月30日 · SWAPO emerged as the sole liberation movement in the early 1960s because it had the support of the Ovambo, the largest ethnic group in Namibia. More a military organisation than a political one, SWAPO launched military operations against the South African government’s military positions.

the twentieth anniversary of the start of the guerrilla war waged by the South West Africa People's Organisation (SWAPO) against the South African occupation forces, estimated at between 50,000 and 100,000. The twenty-sixth of August, which SWAPO commemorates annually as Namibia Day, is also a date of significance to the Herero community of

1987年7月22日 · The SWAPO guerrillas, who have been fighting since 1966 for the independence of Namibia, or South-West Africa, have been reduced by an intensified South African counterinsurgency campaign to...

South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) Political organization formed (1960) in South West Africa (now Namibia). SWAPO's aim was to achieve independence for Namibia, and to this end declared itself at war with South Africa. Soon after Angola gained independence in 1975, SWAPO established guerrilla bases there.

The paper examines the South African military strategy during the Namibian Border War from the 1960s to the 1980s, focusing on the unexpected electoral success of Swapo in the subsequent UN-sponsored elections.

2017年1月17日 · The South African military would end up clashing in battle not only with Swapo’s Plan fighters, but also the Angolan armed forces and their Cuban allies, assisted by the Soviet Union, and ...

SWAPO Captive reveals little-known narratives from ‘the other side’ of the Border War: life in a PLAN training camp, political education in the Eastern Bloc, and a foot soldier’s role in the war for independence.