Não sou Angolana sou guineense era pequena e quando a guerra começou la eu assistia na tv chorei ,nos todos somos África quando 1 chora todos chorão junto .🙏🏿
HOW MANY AFRICAN COUNTRIES WERE INVOLVED TO HELP OTHERS? Angola assisted South Africa, Namibia and Zimbabwe in order to achieve their independence from colonial rule.ECOMOG troops stopped Sierra Leone & Liberia,Ethiopian Army went 2 liberate Somalia."Baixa De Kassanje" Massacre was no good under Portuguese rule January 4, 1961 as well as the Cassinga Raid of 1978 plus Unita rebels= Bie province Massacre? Angolan government is optimistic that peace throughout the country could be imminent.
The dos Santos family are multi billionaires. Maybe we have to look at the companies selling the arms, buying the oil and mining the soil? Same story in many African countries. At one point Castro was being paid a thousand dollars a day for each Cuban soldier in Angola. When the Cuban soldiers where repatriated they got a haircut and ten dollars. Many of them spent years in Angola and many never came back. I spent 8 months fighting with Unita in the late eighties at cuito cannevale. Many of the officers I befriended where educated in Europe. People don't understand that Africa was divided up by European colonialists with no regard for the tribal lands. The South of Angola belongs to the people their who are not the same tribe as those from the north. You may as well say that the Spanish or French should be governed by the Germans. One of the reasons that Savimbi was so popular is because he was not so much about lining his pockets as much as looking after his people. Yet the corporate entities milk the country for what it's worth and are party to crimes that they would never get away with in their home countries. What staggers me is that the Oxbridge set and the like who educate these people do nothing if not exacerbated the situation to their own advantage. God help us.
Without forgetting that unita was a traitor and terrorist organization that was supported by the criminal regime of south africa... jonas is traitor and terrorist also
Sou do Brasil fui do primeiro contingente brasileiro da unavem 3 fui da 3 CIA CIA FZL fiquei sediado em kuito província do BIE na época era SD NERIS 👍🇧🇷
the mpla had been fighting unita for 30 years with cubans, they never won, the usa and mpla asked for help for portuguese armed forces, they went in there and with mpla killed savimbi in 1 year. this just comes to show it dosent have anything to do with sides or commies but all to do with oil and diamonds
this is video shows very well what happen after angola stoped being a portuguese colony, chaos, violence and the murdered of the people, but the few people that take advantage of the countrys wealth are rich beyond imagination, altough their citizens are dieing starving
The People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola - Labour Party is a political party that has ruled Angola since the country's independence from Portugal in 1975. African people from Angola are the the rightful owners of the country. Peace and reconciliation was established after Jonas Savimbi past away in 2002. Criminals are individual people and not the majority so with the Government of National Unity, UNITA forces mingle with the National forces.
London had their own demonstrations and African affairs should not be look at with the western eyes of Sir Rob Geldof. Who is he anywhere to say anything about African people unless he works for our Press Agency or the African Union. South African Development Community (SADC), will take care of the situation if it get worse. Angolans should respect the rule of law and no peaceful demonstrators should be harm coz the freedom of expression is inevitable.De r Greek & Wall Street demonstrations2
Mais amor ao proximo para acabar com esse sofrimento depedentemente de quem esta nas autoridades. Angola e de todos angolanos todos tem o mesmo direito.
The may Angola 🇦🇴 people the woman’s and family kids in 1994 Paz in name love ❤️ God may massage the Angola may family and friends and military DAs fapla da republica de Angola 😭📞😭😭🇦🇴🇦🇴
Dos Santos was pretending to be dumb. Watch his press conference in the White House, he quickly answered the questions in Portuguese while the journalists questioned him in English.
Estás a falar atoa jovem Vê a entrevista na casa branca, lhe perguntavam em em inglês e ele respondia rapidamente em português, porque ele era chefe de estado de um país que fala português ( é praticamente obrigação falar em português)
@Orionetsirius its not about being white or black, in the 1500´s it was common practice to attack other nations or people or whatever to suit your needs. there was no such thing as "PEACE" 500 years ago, dont be naive. the African tribes killed each other back then too, and they stay do. but the country had a lot more stability when it was a colony, that theres is no doubt. i iam very doubtful that mines where used that much by the portuguese army since they themselves where attacked with mines.
@53africa .1st was the cia that helped then was the Russians then portuguese comandos now its the namibians.everybody wants to take credit for his death.grande Jonas
@manuel38300 making business and stealing are different things. plus we dont need to steal anything from you. your own government does a great job at it!
@jonhestananet lol you are so funny you know that?? I mean what the portuguese did for this country nothing they were there just for their beneficit not to save the country.
We angolan are bad ace we acelereted the end of apartheid and the independence of our Namibian brothers, inclusive we host the swapo, and Anc gerila , we cath and judge a lot of English and American mercenaries. A lot of south African and Namibian actual prominent politicians use to live in Angola. Viva angola a luta contínua.
"We accelerated the end of Apartheid and the Independence of Namibia" No you didn't! In actual fact you delayed the Independence of Namibia by a decade or more. The end of Apartheid happened in 1990 with the repeal of the Group Areas Act on the 19th of April 1990. Several things contributed to its end ...... the international pressure on South Africa, the end of communism, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the signing of the Tripartite Accord on the 22nd of September 1998 which secured the withdrawel of the Cuban Troops out of Angola. South Africa's Rainbow Nation was achieved on the 27th of April 1994 not before the sitting down of all the parties at the CODESA Convention in Durban, South Africa starting on the 25th of October 1991. The historic dates below speak for themselves in regards to the de facto MPLA Government and Cuban's intervention in Africa and Angola. *Cuba training MPLA troops in Algiers: 1963 *Che Guevara meets MPLA Agostinho Neto: 5 January 1965 *Following Castro's tour of African countries in May 1972 Cuba stepped up its internationalist operations in Africa starting a training mission in Sierra Leone and smaller technical missions in Equatorial Guinea, Somalia, Algeria and Tanzania. : May 1972 *Carnation Revolution, Portugal: 25 April 1974 *Cuba sent Major Alfonso Perez Morales and Carlos Cadelo on a fact finding mission to Angola to assess the situation: December 1974 / January 1975 *Alvor Agreement: 15 January 1975 - Granting of Independence of Angola from Portugal. *Nakuru Agreement: 21 June 1975 - Attempt to salvage the Alvor Agreement *Truce ended between MPLA/UNITAFNLA: 9 July 1975 after which the MPLA violently forced the FNLA out of Luanda and UNITA voluntarily withdrew to its stronghold in the south. *Castro urged the USSR to increase support for the MPLA, offered to send special troops and asked for assistance. The Russians declined : 15 August 1975 *The dispatch of the Cuban volunteers started 21 August 1975 and an advance party with the most urgently needed specialists used international commercial flights. Small groups continued to trickle into Luanda on such flights as well as on Cuba's ageing Britannia planes and the bulk arrived after a two-week trip aboard three Cuban cargo vessels; the first one, the "Vietnam Heroico" docked at Porto Amboim on 5 October. The arrival of two Cuban ships in Angola with instructors on board was reported by the CIA and raised no alarm in Washington : 21 August 1975 *South Africa intervened with 1500 troops with US support to rescue the stalemate in Angola, Operation Savanah: 23 October 1975 - Failed due to the Cubans having dug in around Luanda with heavy artillery preventing the expeditionary force from going any further. South African forces ordered to withdraw back into Namibia. *Neto declared the independence of the People's Republic of Angola: 11 November 1975 - The FNLA and UNITA responded by proclaiming their own government based in Huambo. UN Resolution 435 on Namibian Independence: 29 September 1978. Cuba's first informal contacts with the MPLA dated back to the late 1950s. The left leaning MPLA had numerous dealings with several other Eastern Bloc countries, receiving financial aid, training and weapons. The one fundamental flaw in my opinion in regards to Angola where people start drawing outlandish conclusions is they all leave out the support the MPLA received from Cuba. Cuba had no right to be in Africa, it certainly wasn't invited into Angola by the majority of its people namely UNITA and the FNLA. Briefly the FNLA are Angolans living in the Northern parts of Angola, the MPLA is resident around the major towns like Luanda and UNITA resides in the South and South Eastern part of Angola. By numbers the FNLA and UNITA were in the majority in 1975 but with the aid of the MPLA, Agostinho Neto declared himself the President of Angola and the MPLA the Government of Angola. This was also acknowledged by the Russians. This one single piece of history perpetuated the civil war in Angola as UNITA and the FNLA stated that the MPLA were in fact an illegitimate Government and did not recognise it as such. During all of this the Portuguese, the previous Colonial Ruler for the previous 500 years had not been consulted about the Cuban intervention and by this time with the Carnation Revolution and the African countries consuming 40% of its budget, the had packed their bags and left. One could say Portugal had had enough of the ungrateful people of Angola and left them to their own devices. Going on to your accusation that somehow Castro had something to do with Namibian Independence is a fallacy. Namibian Independence had already been granted through United Nations Resolution 435 on the 29th of September 1978 due to a Court Ruling in June 1971, where the International Court of Justice ruled that the South African presence in Namibia was illegal. South Africa was the trustee of Namibia since 1915 during World War 1 where the then League of Nations had granted it as such when Germany surrendered to South Africa. Up until 1915, Namibia (German South West Africa) was a German Colony. So from 1915 until 1971 by law South Africa was the trustee of Namibia. The international court needed the UN to sanction the decision, that came in 1978 with Resolution 435. So technically speaking, South Africa had to give up its trusteeship of Namibia (South West Africa) in 1978. But what had happened since 1975 with all the dates above, a total mess in Angola, on the border with Namibia. The Cubans had moved in permanently with the support of Russia money and weapons. South Africa was in a dilemma as it had to give up Namibia but was faced with the "Domino Effect" of having the illegal Marxist orientated MPLA in charge in Angola with thousands of Cubans in support. Cuba was the mercenary army of the MPLA, allowing it to remain in power and plunder the resources for itself...the OIL. Cuba will never admit it, but the MPLA paid Castro countless millions of Dollars for his support. At the Tripartite Accord 1988, it was discussed amongst people like Crocker, Risquet, Freeman, Botha and several other Angolans that in order for Castro to leave Angola he needed to do so honourably. It was the late South African Foreign Minister, Pik Botha that came up with the solution to the Cuban Risquet that sold the deal to Castro. Basically if they continued to fight they would all be losers but if Castro declared that he was the father of Namibian Independence and the end of colonialism in Africa, he would have achieved a greater victory, the freedom of the people of Namibia and their Independence. The South Africans on the other hand could tell the white people back home, they got rid of the Cubans and their war is over. Once the Cubans could leave in honour, it was all over. Back in 1988 the South Africans kept quiet, they did not wish to provoke Castro and escalate the war. If Cuba was being responsible and going to leave Angola for good, why antagonise the situation. Yet still today you will hear the amazing victory at Cuito Cuanavale. If I could contribute the Namibian Independence to one person, it would be the late Pik Botha, who worked tireless over nearly 2 decades in ensuring that the Namibian issue was handled correctly. Today, Namibia is a stunning country, while Angola is still a mess for the most part. They eventually killed Savimbi in 2002 an d the question begs, what would have happened differently had the Cubans not come to Africa and left Portugal and the people of Angola to handle their own problems. But that is the story of all African countries upon receiving Independence, everyone has to squabble over the spoils first and thousands have to die.
66 E, na visão de 1993, eu vi homens vindo a mim de todas as raças da terra para um paraíso em que os antigos judeus, muçulmanos, hindus, budistas, taoístas e cristãos se sentarão juntos diante de Deus. Os indianos, os chineses, os árabes e os africanos negros sentar-se-ão juntos. Enquanto os ímpios e orgulhosos da terra, os racistas e aqueles que não têm humildade e amor pelos outros e que querem um paraíso para a sua religião ou igreja tomarão túneis e irão para Satanás em diferentes compartimentos à espera do julgamento e do inferno eterno de Naraka. 67 Hoje, o poder da santidade, perfeição, ressurreição e arrebatamento está apenas na Mensagem do Cordeiro de 24 de Abril de 1993, que recebestes enquanto eu estou vivo na terra. O poder da redenção é o que as Palavras de um profeta de Deus produzem sobre aqueles que acreditam Nele enquanto este profeta está vivo na terra. E, portanto, as palavras de Krishna, Buda, Maomé, Moisés, Jesus de Nazaré e os profetas já mortos não podem dar Salvação a ninguém hoje. Na marcha dos vivos e dos mortos em direção a Deus, os profetas vivos e seus discípulos são os únicos atores na terra. E se hoje, para seu tempo, vocês rejeitaram o profeta vivo do seu tempo que é Kacou Philippe, saibam que vocês escolheram voluntariamente ir para o inferno. Barros Ernesto +224923518888 +224927996119
@pzimet so civil war is more stable for you than a colony status. ok! regardless of the obvious stability for the portuguese settlers, i dont think the thounsands of african people that came to portugal after the end of the colonies came because the weather was better here. colonization is opression, LIVE WITH IT, look what your country does in the middle east ( if you are american ) hypocrite
Não sou Angolana sou guineense era pequena e quando a guerra começou la eu assistia na tv chorei ,nos todos somos África quando 1 chora todos chorão junto .🙏🏿
Amém!
1 só povo uma só nação
Angola!!!
certo , e obrigado pela empatia , eu só angolano
Angola my country my life ❤️🇦🇴🙏 my province kuanza sul: sumbe 🇦🇴🙏
I want you to be mine
participé de UNAVEMIII 95/97 buenos recuerdos del fin de la guerra, nunca más guerra
salud hermanos angoleños
Muzungo
thanks for this reality show documetary about my country ANGOLA
Damm 13 years ago
HOW MANY AFRICAN COUNTRIES WERE INVOLVED TO HELP OTHERS? Angola assisted South Africa, Namibia and Zimbabwe in order to achieve their independence from colonial rule.ECOMOG troops stopped Sierra Leone & Liberia,Ethiopian Army went 2 liberate Somalia."Baixa De Kassanje" Massacre was no good under Portuguese rule January 4, 1961 as well as the Cassinga Raid of 1978 plus Unita rebels= Bie province Massacre? Angolan government is optimistic that peace throughout the country could be imminent.
The dos Santos family are multi billionaires. Maybe we have to look at the companies selling the arms, buying the oil and mining the soil? Same story in many African countries. At one point Castro was being paid a thousand dollars a day for each Cuban soldier in Angola. When the Cuban soldiers where repatriated they got a haircut and ten dollars. Many of them spent years in Angola and many never came back. I spent 8 months fighting with Unita in the late eighties at cuito cannevale. Many of the officers I befriended where educated in Europe. People don't understand that Africa was divided up by European colonialists with no regard for the tribal lands. The South of Angola belongs to the people their who are not the same tribe as those from the north. You may as well say that the Spanish or French should be governed by the Germans. One of the reasons that Savimbi was so popular is because he was not so much about lining his pockets as much as looking after his people. Yet the corporate entities milk the country for what it's worth and are party to crimes that they would never get away with in their home countries. What staggers me is that the Oxbridge set and the like who educate these people do nothing if not exacerbated the situation to their own advantage. God help us.
Without forgetting that unita was a traitor and terrorist organization that was supported by the criminal regime of south africa... jonas is traitor and terrorist also
No matter how Slow things Going But 1 day UNITA Going to take is Right.
Sou do Brasil fui do primeiro contingente brasileiro da unavem 3 fui da 3 CIA CIA FZL fiquei sediado em kuito província do BIE na época era SD NERIS 👍🇧🇷
Savimbi was a nacionalist and proud angolan period.Grande Jonas you r gone but not forgotten.
the mpla had been fighting unita for 30 years with cubans, they never won, the usa and mpla asked for help for portuguese armed forces, they went in there and with mpla killed savimbi in 1 year. this just comes to show it dosent have anything to do with sides or commies but all to do with oil and diamonds
"March 1996"
you just have to read the description on the right...
take care
I appreciate Journeyman TV concerning Asia and Africa.
2007 markes the first year since the 1940's that food production in Aftica grew faster than the population did...
this is video shows very well what happen after angola stoped being a portuguese colony, chaos, violence and the murdered of the people, but the few people that take advantage of the countrys wealth are rich beyond imagination, altough their citizens are dieing starving
Porra já sofremos 😡😡😡😡
Muito
Angola ainda continua a sofrer ... Nada mudou
My fellows Uruguayans in Angola?
Interesting take on the issues in Angola
The People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola - Labour Party is a political party that has ruled Angola since the country's independence from Portugal in 1975. African people from Angola are the the rightful owners of the country. Peace and reconciliation was established after Jonas Savimbi past away in 2002. Criminals are individual people and not the majority so with the Government of National Unity, UNITA forces mingle with the National forces.
savimbi was a hero and a true leader of men , National Union for the Total Independence of Angola had the greatest leader
there are some lies which render this journalism not so good. quite sad
Good documentary , could be the story of most of Africa ...
London had their own demonstrations and African affairs should not be look at with the western eyes of Sir Rob Geldof. Who is he anywhere to say anything about African people unless he works for our Press Agency or the African Union. South African Development Community (SADC), will take care of the situation if it get worse. Angolans should respect the rule of law and no peaceful demonstrators should be harm coz the freedom of expression is inevitable.De r Greek & Wall Street demonstrations2
abaixo a gatunagem do mpla..down with those thiefs mfkers
Mais amor ao proximo para acabar com esse sofrimento depedentemente de quem esta nas autoridades. Angola e de todos angolanos todos tem o mesmo direito.
@pzimet You are right my friend all of them are the same opportunist. They are there just for the diamond nothing other.
@pzimet You are right my friend.
😢😢😢😢
@pzimet I agree with you my friend
Honestly all this was because of gold and diamonds and y not oil to reach out them self without this was to be peaceful place
Six more years.................
The may Angola 🇦🇴 people the woman’s and family kids in 1994 Paz in name love ❤️ God may massage the Angola may family and friends and military DAs fapla da republica de Angola 😭📞😭😭🇦🇴🇦🇴
Savimbi speak all the languages English French etc, samakuva also speak English.
Only dos Santos who need translate.
Dos Santos was pretending to be dumb. Watch his press conference in the White House, he quickly answered the questions in Portuguese while the journalists questioned him in English.
Estás a falar atoa jovem
Vê a entrevista na casa branca, lhe perguntavam em em inglês e ele respondia rapidamente em português, porque ele era chefe de estado de um país que fala português ( é praticamente obrigação falar em português)
@Orionetsirius its not about being white or black, in the 1500´s it was common practice to attack other nations or people or whatever to suit your needs. there was no such thing as "PEACE" 500 years ago, dont be naive. the African tribes killed each other back then too, and they stay do. but the country had a lot more stability when it was a colony, that theres is no doubt. i iam very doubtful that mines where used that much by the portuguese army since they themselves where attacked with mines.
Fight my brothers fight!
@53africa .1st was the cia that helped then was the Russians then portuguese comandos now its the namibians.everybody wants to take credit for his death.grande Jonas
12.500.000 не могут утихомирить 30 лет))))50.000.000$ и они все сами здадуться!!!)))
@manuel38300 making business and stealing are different things. plus we dont need to steal anything from you. your own government does a great job at it!
What where the Portuguese doing there ? They had caused that conflict
@manuel38300 are the chinese , russian or cuban there because they love angolas people ??? i said it was better managed.
Well in 2002 the UNITA Leader Jonas Savimbi was gone down by MPLA of Luanda together with the joint Forces from the Namibian Defence Force.
Namibian defence force hv done a lot and never failed to accomplish their mission.numbers don't win war
@jonhestananet lol you are so funny you know that?? I mean what the portuguese did for this country nothing they were there just for their beneficit not to save the country.
@Betinho8183 Don't forget that the soviet union financed the other side NPLA.
Far Cry 2
o savimbi ten razao
We angolan are bad ace we acelereted the end of apartheid and the independence of our Namibian brothers, inclusive we host the swapo, and Anc gerila , we cath and judge a lot of English and American mercenaries. A lot of south African and Namibian actual prominent politicians use to live in Angola. Viva angola a luta contínua.
"We accelerated the end of Apartheid and the Independence of Namibia"
No you didn't!
In actual fact you delayed the Independence of Namibia by a decade or more.
The end of Apartheid happened in 1990 with the repeal of the Group Areas Act on the 19th of April 1990. Several things contributed to its end ...... the international pressure on South Africa, the end of communism, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the signing of the Tripartite Accord on the 22nd of September 1998 which secured the withdrawel of the Cuban Troops out of Angola.
South Africa's Rainbow Nation was achieved on the 27th of April 1994 not before the sitting down of all the parties at the CODESA Convention in Durban, South Africa starting on the 25th of October 1991.
The historic dates below speak for themselves in regards to the de facto MPLA Government and Cuban's intervention in Africa and Angola.
*Cuba training MPLA troops in Algiers: 1963
*Che Guevara meets MPLA Agostinho Neto: 5 January 1965
*Following Castro's tour of African countries in May 1972 Cuba stepped up its internationalist operations in Africa starting a training mission in Sierra Leone and smaller technical missions in Equatorial Guinea, Somalia, Algeria and Tanzania. : May 1972
*Carnation Revolution, Portugal: 25 April 1974
*Cuba sent Major Alfonso Perez Morales and Carlos Cadelo on a fact finding mission to Angola to assess the situation: December 1974 / January 1975
*Alvor Agreement: 15 January 1975 - Granting of Independence of Angola from Portugal.
*Nakuru Agreement: 21 June 1975 - Attempt to salvage the Alvor Agreement
*Truce ended between MPLA/UNITAFNLA: 9 July 1975 after which the MPLA violently forced the FNLA out of Luanda and UNITA voluntarily withdrew to its stronghold in the south.
*Castro urged the USSR to increase support for the MPLA, offered to send special troops and asked for assistance. The Russians declined : 15 August 1975
*The dispatch of the Cuban volunteers started 21 August 1975 and an advance party with the most urgently needed specialists used international commercial flights. Small groups continued to trickle into Luanda on such flights as well as on Cuba's ageing Britannia planes and the bulk arrived after a two-week trip aboard three Cuban cargo vessels; the first one, the "Vietnam Heroico" docked at Porto Amboim on 5 October. The arrival of two Cuban ships in Angola with instructors on board was reported by the CIA and raised no alarm in Washington : 21 August 1975
*South Africa intervened with 1500 troops with US support to rescue the stalemate in Angola, Operation Savanah: 23 October 1975 - Failed due to the Cubans having dug in around Luanda with heavy artillery preventing the expeditionary force from going any further. South African forces ordered to withdraw back into Namibia.
*Neto declared the independence of the People's Republic of Angola: 11 November 1975 - The FNLA and UNITA responded by proclaiming their own government based in Huambo.
UN Resolution 435 on Namibian Independence: 29 September 1978.
Cuba's first informal contacts with the MPLA dated back to the late 1950s. The left leaning MPLA had numerous dealings with several other Eastern Bloc countries, receiving financial aid, training and weapons.
The one fundamental flaw in my opinion in regards to Angola where people start drawing outlandish conclusions is they all leave out the support the MPLA received from Cuba. Cuba had no right to be in Africa, it certainly wasn't invited into Angola by the majority of its people namely UNITA and the FNLA.
Briefly the FNLA are Angolans living in the Northern parts of Angola, the MPLA is resident around the major towns like Luanda and UNITA resides in the South and South Eastern part of Angola. By numbers the FNLA and UNITA were in the majority in 1975 but with the aid of the MPLA, Agostinho Neto declared himself the President of Angola and the MPLA the Government of Angola. This was also acknowledged by the Russians.
This one single piece of history perpetuated the civil war in Angola as UNITA and the FNLA stated that the MPLA were in fact an illegitimate Government and did not recognise it as such.
During all of this the Portuguese, the previous Colonial Ruler for the previous 500 years had not been consulted about the Cuban intervention and by this time with the Carnation Revolution and the African countries consuming 40% of its budget, the had packed their bags and left. One could say Portugal had had enough of the ungrateful people of Angola and left them to their own devices.
Going on to your accusation that somehow Castro had something to do with Namibian Independence is a fallacy. Namibian Independence had already been granted through United Nations Resolution 435 on the 29th of September 1978 due to a Court Ruling in June 1971, where the International Court of Justice ruled that the South African presence in Namibia was illegal. South Africa was the trustee of Namibia since 1915 during World War 1 where the then League of Nations had granted it as such when Germany surrendered to South Africa. Up until 1915, Namibia (German South West Africa) was a German Colony.
So from 1915 until 1971 by law South Africa was the trustee of Namibia. The international court needed the UN to sanction the decision, that came in 1978 with Resolution 435. So technically speaking, South Africa had to give up its trusteeship of Namibia (South West Africa) in 1978. But what had happened since 1975 with all the dates above, a total mess in Angola, on the border with Namibia. The Cubans had moved in permanently with the support of Russia money and weapons.
South Africa was in a dilemma as it had to give up Namibia but was faced with the "Domino Effect" of having the illegal Marxist orientated MPLA in charge in Angola with thousands of Cubans in support. Cuba was the mercenary army of the MPLA, allowing it to remain in power and plunder the resources for itself...the OIL. Cuba will never admit it, but the MPLA paid Castro countless millions of Dollars for his support.
At the Tripartite Accord 1988, it was discussed amongst people like Crocker, Risquet, Freeman, Botha and several other Angolans that in order for Castro to leave Angola he needed to do so honourably. It was the late South African Foreign Minister, Pik Botha that came up with the solution to the Cuban Risquet that sold the deal to Castro. Basically if they continued to fight they would all be losers but if Castro declared that he was the father of Namibian Independence and the end of colonialism in Africa, he would have achieved a greater victory, the freedom of the people of Namibia and their Independence. The South Africans on the other hand could tell the white people back home, they got rid of the Cubans and their war is over. Once the Cubans could leave in honour, it was all over.
Back in 1988 the South Africans kept quiet, they did not wish to provoke Castro and escalate the war. If Cuba was being responsible and going to leave Angola for good, why antagonise the situation.
Yet still today you will hear the amazing victory at Cuito Cuanavale. If I could contribute the Namibian Independence to one person, it would be the late Pik Botha, who worked tireless over nearly 2 decades in ensuring that the Namibian issue was handled correctly. Today, Namibia is a stunning country, while Angola is still a mess for the most part. They eventually killed Savimbi in 2002 an d the question begs, what would have happened differently had the Cubans not come to Africa and left Portugal and the people of Angola to handle their own problems. But that is the story of all African countries upon receiving Independence, everyone has to squabble over the spoils first and thousands have to die.
May your struggle continue.
marinara
Grande trabalho. Dediquei 28 anos por esta causa.Muito orgulho
66 E, na visão de 1993, eu vi homens vindo a mim de todas as raças da terra para um paraíso em que os antigos judeus, muçulmanos, hindus, budistas, taoístas e cristãos se sentarão juntos diante de Deus. Os indianos, os chineses, os árabes e os africanos negros sentar-se-ão juntos. Enquanto os ímpios e orgulhosos da terra, os racistas e aqueles que não têm humildade e amor pelos outros e que querem um paraíso para a sua religião ou igreja tomarão túneis e irão para Satanás em diferentes compartimentos à espera do julgamento e do inferno eterno de Naraka.
67 Hoje, o poder da santidade, perfeição, ressurreição e arrebatamento está apenas na Mensagem do Cordeiro de 24 de Abril de 1993, que recebestes enquanto eu estou vivo na terra. O poder da redenção é o que as Palavras de um profeta de Deus produzem sobre aqueles que acreditam Nele enquanto este profeta está vivo na terra. E, portanto, as palavras de Krishna, Buda, Maomé, Moisés, Jesus de Nazaré e os profetas já mortos não podem dar Salvação a ninguém hoje. Na marcha dos vivos e dos mortos em direção a Deus, os profetas vivos e seus discípulos são os únicos atores na terra. E se hoje, para seu tempo, vocês rejeitaram o profeta vivo do seu tempo que é Kacou Philippe, saibam que vocês escolheram voluntariamente ir para o inferno.
Barros Ernesto
+224923518888
+224927996119
Savimbi
@jonhestananet all of you are the same so we need just have a peace in our country it is all. All of you are there just to stole our diamond.
Fidel Castro
INão
Savimbi um patriota
Claro.
@nelitopalanca tem razao meu irmao
diga esso ao ze edu que guerra nunca mais ele vai rir corrupto
Western jealousy die of greed
@pzimet so civil war is more stable for you than a colony status. ok! regardless of the obvious stability for the portuguese settlers, i dont think the thounsands of african people that came to portugal after the end of the colonies came because the weather was better here. colonization is opression, LIVE WITH IT, look what your country does in the middle east ( if you are american ) hypocrite
Filthy communist