Word: swapo
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Dates: during 1976-1976
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...agreeing to call a constitutional conference, South Africa still hoped to preserve white power by turning Namibia into a federation that would be dominated by its 90,000 whites (who compose 10.6% of the territory's 850,000 inhabitants). But the South West African People's Organization (SWAPO), representing much of the powerful Ovambo tribe that makes up 46% of Namibia's population, was determined to form the new government on its own terms. In the meantime, it waged guerrilla warfare against the existing regime from bases in Angola and Zambia...
...president, was sympathetic. He told the South African Financial Mail in May 1975 that he hopes "future leaders of Angola will cooperate with South Africa" and that apartheid "is a South African problem" and much misunderstood. By contrast, the MPLA has already provided a base for the operations of SWAPO of Namibia, the Namibian liberation movement...
...audible to the outside world, except for a trickle of journalists and representatives from Afro-American organizations, willing to make the eight week journey on foot to UNITA bases within central Angola. Impressive reports about the movement filtered out by word-of-mouth accounts from the Namibian Liberation Movement--SWAPO--guerrillas. While SWAPO was forced to maintain a diplomatic alliance with MPLA because of its Soviet backing, SWAPO operated against the South African army (and continues to do so today) from UNITA bases in Southern Angola...
...called for a bigger Western involvement in Angola "not only in the diplomatic but in all other fields." Defense Minister Piet W. Botha hinted, however, that South Africa might pull out of Angola in return for a guarantee against incursions by the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO), whose Angola-based guerrillas have killed a score of South African soldiers...
...U.S.S.R. for warplanes and has sent 700 students to study in Soviet universities. Zambia too has gone to the Soviets for arms, as has Sierra Leone. Moscow is arming Rhodesian black insurgents based in Tanzania and Mozambique and members of the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO), which is fighting against South Africa's control of South West Africa (Namibia...