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Title: Commandos from Forças Armadas Angolanan drive around searching for enemy soldiers
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002, Soldiers--Angola,
Description: Forças Armadas Angolanan (FAA) commandos in a search for União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola (UNITA) troops in Ganda, Angola.
Identifier: islandora:7066

Title: Residents of Huambo flee the brutal occupation of the city
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002, Refugees--Angola, Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002--Social aspects,
Description: Despite having suffered unbearable conditions, a resident of Humbo still has a ready smile for the photographer as he flees the city. Residents of Huambo soke of horendous street-to-street battles that started after Christmas in 1992 during the occupation of the city by troops belonging to União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola (UNITA).
Identifier: islandora:7075

Title: Young Forças Armadas Angolanan soldier on guard duty
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002, Soldiers--Angola, Child soldiers--Angola, Machine guns--Angola,
Description: Forças Armadas Angolanan (FAA) recruit at sunset on guard duty near the town of Ganda, Angola. União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola (UNITA) were close and the boy feared falling asleep.
Identifier: islandora:7068

Title: Cuba, carved into the trunk of a baobab tree, Cahama, Angola
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002, Baobab,
Description: The word 'Cuba' has been carved into the trunk a baobab tree, Cahama in Cunene Province.
Identifier: islandora:7034

Title: Victim of attack
Subject: AfghanisExtremists--Afghanistan, Wounds and injuries, Civilian war casualties--Afghanistan, Transport, Afghans
Description: Men commandeer a taxi to pick up the victims of a Taliban rocket attack.
Identifier: islandora:8329

Title: Erich Brand to Stadtverwaltung Berlin-Wilmersdorf (the city administration Berlin-Wilmersdorf), 8 November 1944
Subject: World War, 1939-1945, Brand, Erich--Correspondence, Housing--Germany--Berlin, Soldiers--Correspondence
Description: Letter from Mr. Erich Brand to the Berlin-Wilmersdorf city administration claiming for a new house for the third time. An English translation of this letter is available. To see this translation please contact the University of Cape Town Libraries' Special Collections.
Identifier: islandora:27364

Title: Building destroyed during the Civil War
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002, Buildings--War damage--Angola--Cunene (Province),
Description: Building destroyed during the Angolan Civil War in Ngive, a town in the Cunene Province, southern Angola. Ngive is close to the border with Namibia.
Identifier: islandora:7008

Title: President José Eduardo dos Santos greets his supporters
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002, Angola--Politics and government--1975-, Political campaigns--Angola, Santos, José Eduardo dos--1942-,
Description: President José Eduardo dos Santos greets Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola (MPLA) supporters during his election campaign, some days before the election in September 1992.
Identifier: islandora:7047

Title: Car bomb campaign, Cubal, Angola
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002, Soldiers--Angola, Police--Angola, Boys--Angola, Cameras, Nikon camera,
Description: Angolan policeman in Cubal, Angola, with a Nikon F3 HP camera. On the back of the camera is a car bomb yellow sticker from the car bomb campaign launched in 1988. .
Identifier: islandora:7012

Title: Mercenary soldier in Angola is captured and taken for questioning
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002, Mercenary troops--Angola, Prisoners of war--Angola, Soldiers--Angola,
Description: A União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola (UNITA) mercenary is captured and bound with rope. He is bound with rope and taken for questioning.
Identifier: islandora:7074

Title: Car bomb campaign, Cubal, Angola
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002, Soldiers--Angola, Police--Angola, Boys--Angola, Cameras, Nikon camera,
Description: Angolan policeman in Cubal, Angola, with a Nikon F3 HP camera. On the back of the camera is a car bomb yellow sticker from the car bomb campaign launched in 1988. .
Identifier: islandora:7014

Title: Rhodes statue, War Memorial and Smuts Hall
Subject: Rhodes statue, War Memorial, Smuts Hall
Description: "Groote Schuur Campus showing Rhodes Statue, War Memorial and Smuts Hall"
Identifier: islandora:7504

Title: Search for food in Kuito, Angola
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002--Social aspects, Boys--Angola,
Description: A young boy scavenges for food in a field in Kuito in the Bié Province of Angola.
Identifier: islandora:7027

Title: Political rally, in support of the MPLA, Angola, 1992
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002, Angola--Politics and government--1975-, Public meetings--Angola--Luanda, Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola,
Description: Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola (MPLA)(Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola) - supporters at a rally in Luanda, September 1992.
Identifier: islandora:7046

Title: Kingair aircraft lies damaged on an emergency runway in Huambo
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002, Airplanes--Angola, Aircraft accidents--Angola--Huambo,
Description: A Kingair aircraft lies damaged on an emergency runway in Huambo in the Huambo Province of Angola after attempting to land. The main runway had been badly sabotaged by União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola (UNITA) forces.
Identifier: islandora:7020

Title: Survivors of the siege of Kuito
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002--Social aspects, Children--Angola, Victims of war--Angola, Malnutrition in children--Angola,
Description: Two severely malnourished children standing in a doorway. They are survivors of the siege of Kuito in the Bié Province of Angola.
Identifier: islandora:7011

Title: Searching for land mines, Caxito, Angola
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002, Land mines--Detection--Angola,
Description: A deminer searches for land mines in a heavily mined area outside Caxito in the Bengo Province of Angola.
Identifier: islandora:7026

Title: On parade
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002,
Description: Troops from União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola, Forças Armadas de Libertação de Angola (UNITA, FALA), the armed wing of UNITA on parade in Kazombo in the Moxico Province of Angola in 1994.
Identifier: islandora:7002

Title: Injured soldiers belonging to the Forças Armadas Angolanan (FAA) wait to be evacuated
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002, Soldiers--Angola, War--Angola--Relief of sick and wounded, Soldiers--Wounds and injuries--Angola,
Description: Forças Armadas Angolanan (FAA) recruits, injured in battle, wait, hoping to be evacuated from the frontline. Their chances were slim. The FAA was hesistant to expose their helicopters to União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola (UNITA) who were armed with stinger missiles.
Identifier: islandora:7071

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