South Africa's Alternative Vision

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The wall street journal describes savinby as the favorite anti communist hero of american conservatives. Savinbi killed communists. You killed cubans. That was enough. And that's why the mp embrace savimbi. Despite the crimes of sarimbi, which were no secret, by the way. The extent of the crime might be a secret, but that he was a terrorist engaged in large scale terrorism was already public knowledge,. reported in he european press, in the london times, conservative newspaper, but not in the American press. What they hoped down the line in terms of south africa at was to makea limited political concessions to non white roops and limited

The second of Dan’s two-part interview with Piero Gleijeses on his book Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976–1991. This is the story of Cuba’s military defense of the Angolan government against a US and South Africa-backed effort to overthrow the People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA). The future of the entire region was on the line—including the fate of apartheid in South Africa and of Namibia, then a South African colony. Learn Southern African geography by studying these maps: thedigradio.com/visions-of-freedom-maps Support The Dig with money at Patreon.com/TheDig and receive our weekly newsletter.