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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

Title: Forças Armadas Angolanan (FAA) soldier draws deep on a cigarette
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002, Soldiers--Angola, Smoking,
Description: Starved of cigarettes, a Forças Armadas Angolanan (FAA) soldier draws deep on an Angola Combatante (AC) cigarettes - the best brand available on the frontline.
Identifier: islandora:7069

Title: Senator speaks at memorial service of the Gunners' Association, Cape Town
Subject: Soldiers, War memorials, Statues, Monuments, ,
Description: Senator Paul Sauer, honorary colonel of the Cape Field Artillery, addresses the annual memorial service of the Gunners' Association, Western Province, at the War Memorial on the Cape Town Foreshore yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:15263

Title: Erich Brand to Mrs. Frieda Beutz, 8 November 1944
Subject: World War, 1939-1945, Brand, Erich--Correspondence, Beautz, Frieda--Correspondence, Soldiers--Correspondence
Description: Letter from Mr. Erich Brand to Mrs. Frieda Beutz enquiring about a cheque he sent for his wife. The letter includes comments on the war and well wishes for her and her daughter. An English translation of this letter is available. To see this translation please contact the University of Cape Town Libraries' Special Collections.
Identifier: islandora:27363

Title: Herd boy injured by a landmine learns to walk, Oshakati Hospital
Subject: Namibia--History, Military--20th century, War victims--Namibia--Oshakati, Children and war--Namibia
Description: A herd boy injured by a landmine learns to walk, Oshakati Hospital.
Identifier: islandora:6963

Title: Military vehicles, Angola
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002, Tanks (Military science)--Angola, Soldiers--Angola, Soldiers--Angola, Men--Angola, Armored vehicles, Military--Angola,
Description: A row of military vehicles, Angola.
Identifier: islandora:7001

Title: Night of the bombing of the Continental Hotel
Subject: Bombings, Atrocities, Transportation, Buildings--War damage--Namibia--Windhoek
Description: The night of the bombing of the Continental Hotel, Windhoek.
Identifier: islandora:6941

Title: Huambo family fleeing the Civil War
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002, Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002--Social aspects,
Description: Desperate days for this family from the Huambo Province in Angola as they cross a river while fleeing from the Angolan Civil War. The father carries a son too weak to walk. They hoped to reach Katumbela in Benguela. They had already walked hundreds of kilometres.
Identifier: islandora:7080

Title: Registering to vote
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002, Elections--Angola, Men--Angola,
Description: An ex-soldier and first time voter, has his photograph taken by staff from the Angolan Electoral Commission in order to register as a voter in upcoming elections in Angola.
Identifier: islandora:7036

Title: Forças Armadas Angolanan show their weapons
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002, Soldiers--Angola, AK-47 rifle,
Description: Forças Armadas Angolanan (FAA) show their weapons outside their temporary base and shelter in the oil rich town of Soyo. The FAA took control of the town from União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola (UNITA) on 1 November, 1994.
Identifier: islandora:7055

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