USA Africa Dialogue Series - RE: The Battle at Cuito Carnavale. Angola, and the defeat of apartheid South Africa by Cuban forces ..............

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Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - The Battle at Cuito Carnavale. Angola, and the defeat of apartheid South Africa by Cuban forces ..............

One of the greatest contributions of revolutionary Cuba to Africa was the intervention that prevented the apartheid South African regime from occupying Angola and environs. Horace Campbell and  Ronnie Kasrils discuss this momentous        defeat of  apartheid South Africa and its US ally  in Monthly Review. vol. 64. issue  11.

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MONTHLY REVIEW

Volume 64, Issue 11 (April)

NOTES FROM THE EDITORS

April 2013 (Volume 64, Number 11)

REPRISE

The Military Defeat of the South Africans in Angola

by Horace Campbell

Topics: History

 Places: Africa , Angola

In Angola in the spring of 1988 the armed forces of apartheid South Africa and the US-backed mercenaries of Jonas Savimbi were defeated by the combined force of the Cuban military, the Angolan army, and the military units of the liberation movements of South Africa and Namibia. This led directly to the independence of Namibia and then to the fall of the apartheid regime in South Africa itself. Cuba's heroic role is the outstanding example of principled anti-imperialist internationalism in the last decades of the twentieth century.… We celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of these events by reprinting the account by Horace Campbell that appeared in Monthly Review in April 1989, with some pride at having published so sharp an analysis of current events—events largely ignored by the mass media then and since. We then present a military-focused historical analysis by Monthly Review Press author Ronnie Kasrils, who had the extraordinary fate to have headed ANC military intelligence in the battle alongside the Cubans, and then to have served for five years as Deputy Minister of Defense in the post-apartheid South African government—in regular contact with officers who had commanded the opposing forces. —The Editors

Cuito Cuanavale, Angola

25th Anniversary of a Historic African Battle

by Ronnie Kasrils

Topics: History

 Places: Africa , Angola

Prohibited from meeting openly by South Africa's apartheid government, the Seventh Congress of the South African Communist Party was held in Cuba in April 1989. When Jorge Risquet, one of Fidel Castro's shrewdest and most trusted colleagues, addressed the gathered members, he was greeted with the resounding salutation "Viva Cuito Cuanavale!" For the South African delegates, many who had come from military duty in Angola itself where the African National Congress (ANC) had military training facilities courtesy of the government, there was no doubt whatsoever that an epic victory had been recently won at the remote town of Cuito Cuanavale in Angola. The loser was the apartheid military machine in that embattled country in March 1988, constituting a historic turning point in the struggle for the total liberation of the region from racist rule and aggression.… | more…

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