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Title South African intervention in the Angolan Civil War, 1975-1976: motivations and implications
Full text http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7928
Date 2002
Author(s) John, Nerys
Contributor(s) Saunders, Christopher
Abstract Bibliography: leaves 137-146. - Between 1975-1976 South Africa intervened in the Angolan civil war. The invasion of a black African country was then an unprecedented event in South Africa's history. This dissertation explores the motivations behind, and implications of, South Africa's involvement in Angola. It firstly scrutinises the rationalisations given by the government of the day, specifically the four key objectives that the Defence Force claimed it had been pursuing. These were: the protection of South Africa's investment in the Cunene hydroelectric scheme; the 'hot pursuit' of Namibian guerrillas; the response to appeals from two of the liberation movements in Angola; and finally, the need to counter communist, specifically Cuban, intervention in Angola.
Subject(s) Historical Studies
Language eng
Publisher University of Cape Town; Faculty of Humanities; Department of Historical Studies
Type of publication Thesis; Text; Masters; MA
Repository Cape Town - OpenUCT, University of Cape Town
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