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4 May 1978 - 'Raid on Cassinga'
[WHN] South Africa in the spring of 1978 was a country besieged. The apartheid state was increasingly unpopular with its neighbors and unable to control its own restive black population. In the view of the white minority in power, the nation was not only beset domestically but under attack internationally by the Kremlin-aligned governments of neighboring countries. Anticolonialist movements were sweeping the Belgians from the Congo, the Portuguese from Angola and Mozambique, white Rhodesians from Zimbabwe, and the South Africans from newly renamed Namibia.Happy Operation Reindeer Day, COL Jan Breytenback's 4 May 1978 highly successful vertical envelopment of communist terrorists Posted by: Besoeker 2023-05-04 |
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