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Cuito Cuanavale
1987–88 — At a mud town in south-east Angola, Cuban, Angolan and SWAPO forces halt South Africa’s largest armoured offensive. The stalemate breaks the myth of white military invincibility and opens the deal that frees Namibia.
This is one scene of Chapter 9 — The Settler Redoubt in The Decolonization of Africa, 1945–1994.
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