Death in the Desert: The Namibian Tragedy by Morgan Norval

Copyright 1989 Published by: Selous Foundation Press, Washington DC

ISBN: 0-944273-03-3 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 89-62602

 

 Sweeping a dirt road in Owamboland for SWAPO landmines.

 

 Barclay's Bank in Oshakati destroyed by a SWAPO briefcase bomb in February 1988. The blast killed 28 innocent civilians; most of them black Owambos.

 

Scanning the bush for FAPLA armored units, 61 Mechanized Battalion Ratel with a 90 mm. Cannon. 

 

 Loosening saddles, a mounted patrol takes a break from its hunt for SWAPO terrorists.

 

 32 Battalion sign at the entrance to their base in the Caprivi Strip.

 

 SADF base protecting a valuable watertower in Eastern Owamboland.

 

Final South African pullout from Angola, August 30, 1988, as SADF units cross the Kavango River at Rundu into Namibia. 

 

 


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