'n Strategiese en operasionele beoordeling van die Suid-Afrikaanse Weermag (SAW) se oorgrens-operasies in Angola, 1978-1988

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dc.contributor.authorScholtz, Leopold
dc.date.accessioned2018-08-21T10:21:07Z
dc.date.available2018-08-21T10:21:07Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.description.abstractThe cross-border operations of the South African Army between 1978 and 1988 were politically extremely controversial. There were several reasons why the Army undertook them. On a security-strategic level the South African government wanted to prevent SWAPO, a Marxist-Leninist organisation, to seize power in South West Africa (now Namibia). On military-strategic level it was meaningful to take the initiative and disrupt SWAPO before its insurgents could cross the border to South West Africa; also to support UNITA in order to prevent SWAPO from infiltrating the Okavango and West Caprivi. These cross-border operations were successful in the sense that they prevented insurgency and helped to undermine SWAPO’s morale. In the end SWAPO ruled Namibia; the country, however, did not become a Marxist-Leninist dictatorship but a more or less libaral democracy.en_ZA
dc.description.versionPublisher's versionen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationScholtz, L. (2009). 'n Strategiese en operasionele beoordeling van die Suid-Afrikaanse Weermag (SAW) se oorgrens-operasies in Angola, 1978-1988. Journal for Contemporary History, 34(1), 57-80.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn2415-0509 (online)
dc.identifier.issn0258-2422 (print)
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11660/9160
dc.language.isoafen_ZA
dc.publisherFaculty of Humanities, University of the Free Stateen_ZA
dc.rights.holderFaculty of Humanities, University of the Free Stateen_ZA
dc.subjectSouth African Armyen_ZA
dc.subjectSouth African governmenten_ZA
dc.subjectCross-border operationsen_ZA
dc.subjectInsurgencyen_ZA
dc.subjectLiberal democracyen_ZA
dc.title'n Strategiese en operasionele beoordeling van die Suid-Afrikaanse Weermag (SAW) se oorgrens-operasies in Angola, 1978-1988en_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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