Union for Total Independence of Angola (UNITA)

1984-1990 / African liberation movement / African National Congress (ANC) / Anti-Imperialism / Armed Struggle / Battles / Cuito Cuanavale / Front Line States / National Democratic Revolution / Pan Africanism / South African Defence Force’s (SADF) / SWAPO / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)

Beginnings of the Northern Front in Angola

Beginnings of the Northern Front in Angola On 7 October 1987, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) dispatched two companies totalling 200 men and women to the area between Angola’s Uige, Cuanza…

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October 8, 2025

1979-1983 / African liberation movement / African National Congress (ANC) / Anti-Imperialism / Armed Struggle / Battles / Front Line States / National Democratic Revolution / National Executive Committee (NEC) / Pan Africanism / South African Defence Force’s (SADF) / SWAPO / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) / Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU)

Beginning of the MK-Angolan Eastern Front

Beginning of the MK-Angolan Eastern Front On 22 August 1983, the Chief Representative of the African National Congress (ANC) in Angola, Uriah Mokeba, wrote a second letter to the Head…

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August 22, 2025

1984-1990 / African liberation movement / African National Congress (ANC) / Battles / Cuito Cuanavale / Negotiations / Pan Africanism / South African Defence Force’s (SADF) / SWAPO / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)

Cuito Cuanavale and the Success of the African Revolution in Angola

Cuito Cuanavale and the Success of the African Revolution in Angola After the 23 March 1988 reversals at Cuito Cuanavale, apartheid South Africa began talks that culminated in the December…

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March 23, 2025

1984-1990 / African National Congress (ANC) / Battles / National Executive Committee (NEC) / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)

MK Mutiny in Viana – The Election of the Committee of Ten

On the afternoon of Monday, 6 February 1984, a general meeting of cadres was held around the swimming pool in Viana Transit Camp, outside the capital of Angola, Luanda, which…

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February 6, 2025

1984-1990 / African National Congress (ANC) / Battles / National Executive Committee (NEC) / SWAPO / Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)

The Beginnings of Mkatashinga (MK Mutiny in Angola)

On 12 January 1984, a strong delegation of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the African National Congress (ANC) arrived at Caculama, the main training centre of its military wing,…

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January 12, 2025