Comments on: The Battle of Cuito Cuanavale

By: Mbulunganga ya SWAPO

Mbulunganga ya SWAPO — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 06:41:24 +0000

We must therefore, as fighting Nation, accept the fact that without fighting, the Pretoria regime will never voluntarily surrender power to the Namibians as well as the ANC MK. This does not, however, imply that we negate the strategy of waging political, diplomatic and military struggle concurrently. Therefore,? our African Nationalist and patriots, young requested the SWAPO military wing PLAN to escort them? across the Angolan border so that they can also come and fight SADF. Africans had a strong military operation in which the white minority of the South African Defense Force {SADF} enemy forces were surround in Southern Angola by the Cubanos, FAPLA of MPLA, PLAN fighters of SWAPO and the magnificent warriors of the ANC military? wing Umkhonto we Sizwe. Sorry, they were not able to get out until negations took place for Nelson Mandela to be release and for South West Africa (SWA), Namibia to gain free and fair elections that brought genuine independence 4 our Nations. At the same time the young school Children went to study abroad, Tanzania, Zambia, Angola, Algiers, Russia, Cuba, Congo Brazzaville, Deutsche Demokratische Republik (GDR), Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria, Egypt, Belarus, Liberia,Yugoslavia,Sierra Leone and the great Zimbabwe. SWAPO en FAPLA Magte got rid of the so called SADF allies you wanna know, Uncle Toms/Puppets were the same UNITA, ZAIR, for FNLA and SADF

By: Mbulunganga ya SWAPO

Mbulunganga ya SWAPO — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 06:13:23 +0000

Why have them there with MPLA & SWAPO? In Africa you need infantry combat vehicles (we had the BMP-1) and APCs (we had BTR-50, BTR-60PB and BTR-70). Angolans had infantry combat vehicles (BMP-1), T-54B and T-55 tanks. I didn’t see any BTR-152s in anywhere in Africa. Perhaps they weren’t in working order because Cubans dumped a lot of them into Angola in 1975-77. M-46 130 mm long range drawn gun, with a range of 27-30 km. The South Africans SADF, fired on us with their 155 mm G-5 and G-6 guns with rocket projectiles with a 45km range. They coded us, whereas our 130 mm gun couldn’t reach them. Also they fired on us using Valkiri[30] rocket launchers. UNITA forces used the Grad-1P portable rocket launcher, placing it on a tripod. South African Buffalo 32 battalion consisted of 10 companies formed according to ethnic backgrounds. Companies on combat vehicles, various BTRs. The Cubans had T-62s.– T-72s came to Angola much later, in the 1990s?

By: Syd Warren

Syd Warren — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 16:18:24 +0000

Hi Johann
Sorry, I didn’t return to the site again. Here’s a link that gives some insight into the very heart of the “Battle of Cuito Cuanavale”; from big bro Fidel’s viewpoint: http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/letters/53455.

By: Syd Warren

Syd Warren — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:25:19 +0000

The title is very misleading, if the intention was to focus on the operations around Cuito Cuanavale during 1988. Nothing is said about Op Hooper for example, which resulted in the phenomenal SADF successes alluded to in the article. Although the “Battle of Cuito Cuanavale” was a phase of sorts in the grand scheme of the Angolan/Cuban forces’ move against UNITA, it was the location and time of a significant military victory for the SADF.

By: Johann

Johann — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:56:46 +0000

Syd, please send us more info and we will gladly post it here.