The South Africans Are Trying to Overthrow Themselves

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The south africans decide that they have to find a political solution which will allow them to retain their ality of power. The socalled fornull alliance, a nation of a wide political party and tame no white political party,. based on different agnes, nama, araro, et cetera, etc. That is willing to place of africas game. And so we are asked south africa trying to achieve some moderate peotion, internationally acceptable in amemia. But we don't apply any pressure. So we have a situation under character in which relations of the cartel administration with south africa are frigid. We bother the south africs but are not willing

Part one 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. Check out Six Faces of Globalization: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why It Matters by Anthea Roberts and Nicolas Lamp hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674245952