May 4 marked the 29th anniversary of one of the most controversial episodes in the history of the old South African Defence Force - the Battle of Cassinga in Angola, long represented as a grotesque ...
ONE evening early 1977, eleven new recruits, including myself, were summoned to the commander's office at Oshitumba. We were to be part of the fighters accompanying newly-arrived civilians to Cassinga ...
Harare — AT daybreak on May 4, 1978, South African planes flew over Cassinga, a Namibian refugee camp in southern Angola. Claudia Ushona, who was then a sixteen-year old refugee living in the camp, ...