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Title: Landmine victims and was injured await treatment
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002, War victims--Angola, Land mine victims--Angola,
Description: Landmine victims and war injured await medical treatment were unobtainable in Ganda State Hospital, Angola.
Identifier: islandora:7061

Title: Jonas Malheiro Savimbi
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002, Savimbi, Jonas Malheiro,
Description: A final photograph of Jonas Malheiro Savimbi taken 1995. The Angolan rebel leader was killed in fighting with government troops on 22 February 2002 in the rural province of Moxico in south-east Angola.
Identifier: islandora:7029

Title: Tank maintenance
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002, Tanks (Military science)--Angola, Armored vehicles, Military--Angola, Soldiers--Angola,
Description: Forças Armadas Angolanan (FAA) tank crew do some maintenance while standing guard and protecting international oil interests with their Russian weapons, Soyo, 1994. União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola (UNITA) forces had just been driven from the oilfields with the help of mercenary forces recruited in South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:7010

Title: Victim of attack
Subject: injury, wounded, AfghanisWounds and injuries, Extremists--Afghanistan, Civilian war casualties--Afghanistan, Afghans
Description: Men carry a man wounded in a Taliban rocket attack.
Identifier: islandora:8326

Title: Dr Jonas Malheiro Savimbi at a press conference
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002, Angola--Politics and government--1975-, Savimbi, Jonas Malheiro,
Description: Dr Jonas Malheiro Savimbi at a press conference where he rejected the result of the 1992 election result in Angola. This would be the last photograph of Savimbi in Luanda as he left for Huambo later that day.
Identifier: islandora:7041

Title: Soviet armoured personnel carrier, Benguela, Angola
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002, Armored personnel carriers--Angola, Soldiers--Angola, Armored vehicles, Military--Angola,
Description: An armored personnel carriers (BMP APC) of Soviet origin on patrol with Forças Armadas Angolanan (FAA) crew. They are in search of União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola (UNITA) commanders on the Bokoio frontline in Benguela Province in Angola. The FAA was slowly retaking lost territory.
Identifier: islandora:6996

Title: Tank commander
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002, Tanks (Military science)--Angola, Soldiers--Angola,
Description: Forças Armadas Angolanan (FAA) tank commander outside a church in Ganda, Angola. He is in search of any União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola (UNITA) forces in the area.
Identifier: islandora:7072

Title: Erich Brand to Nordstern Lebensversicherungs A.G. (Norstern Insurance Company), 8 November 1944
Subject: World War, 1939-1945, Brand, Erich--Correspondence, Life insurance, Soldiers--Correspondence
Description: Letter from Mr. Erich Brand to Nordstern Insurance Company requesting that his life policy be changed. An English translation of this letter is available. To see this translation please contact the University of Cape Town Libraries' Special Collections.
Identifier: islandora:27366

Title: Freelance photographer, Carlos Lousada with his guitar
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002, Benguela Province (Angola)--Social conditions, Lousada, Carlos, Santos, Nguxi de,
Description: Luanda-based freelance photographer, Carlos Lousada, plays Jimi Hendrix music on his guitar while Nguxi de Santos, from Angola TV, films in the background.
Identifier: islandora:7078

Title: Angolan refugees, Cubal
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002, Refugees--Angola--Cubal, Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002--Social aspects,
Description: A group of Angolan citizens, reduced to refugee status, arrive in the town of Cubal, then controlled by Forças Armadas Angolanan (FAA). This group had walked from Malange.
Identifier: islandora:7019

Title: Victim of war trauma
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002, Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002--Psychological aspects, War victims--Angola,
Description: A victim of war trauma spends his days chained at the clinic of Papa Quitoka, a privately owned rehabilitation centre for the insane situated in Luanda.
Identifier: islandora:7062

Title: News coverage, Luanda, Angola
Subject: Pinto, Candida, War correspondents--Angola,
Description: Candida Pinto, a television reporter for SIC TV in Portugal, moves aside as a cameraman films the scene outside.
Identifier: islandora:7052

Title: War injured children in the Josina Machel Hospital, Luanda.
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002--Social aspects, War victims--Angola, Children--Angola,
Description: War injured children in the Josina Machel Hospital, Luanda.
Identifier: islandora:7009

Title: Digging in
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002, Soldiers--Angola, Rocket launchers (Ordnance)--Angola,
Description: The crew of a BM-21 Grad 9K51 Multiple Rocket Launcher (MRLS) dig in in the Huambo Province of Angola.
Identifier: islandora:7018

Title: Bodies of Plan combatants killed during contact with Koevoet are buried at Uupindi
Subject: Mass burials--Namibia, Dead--Namiba, Cemeteries--Namibia, Namibia--Armed Forces, War crimes--Namibia, War victims--Namibia
Description: The crucifixion. The bodies of 133 People's Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN) combatants killed during contact with Koevoet at Oshimbimbi are buried at Uupindi, west of Oshakati. Koevoet is the common name of the South West African Police Counter-Insurgency Unit (SWAPOL-COIN).
Identifier: islandora:6817

Title: Temporary base on Huambo frontline.
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002, Soldiers--Angola,
Description: Temporary base on Huambo frontline. The crew spin a generator to produce power for their crackling radio. The men were desperate for news from Luanda.
Identifier: islandora:7081

Title: Cahama, Angola
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002, Soldiers--Angola, Babies--Angola,
Description: Two recently demobilzed Forças Armadas Populares de Libertação de Angola (FAPLA) soldiers stand outside a building in the town of Cahama, Angola, holding a baby. A portrait has been painted on the wall of the building. They are relieved that the war with South Africa had come to an end and that Cuban forces based in Cahama for many years have finally withdrawn.
Identifier: islandora:7033

Title: Happy to be alive
Subject: Pinto, Candida, War correspondents--Angola,
Description: Candida Pinto, a television reporter for SIC TV in Portugal is happy to be alive having survived attempt to land a Kingair plane on an emergency runway in Huambo in the Huambo Province of Angola.
Identifier: islandora:6988

Title: Caritas Feeding Centre, Malanje, Angola
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002--Social aspects,
Description: Angolans wait patiently for food at the Caritas Feeding Centre in Malange in the Malanje Province of Angola. The city was under siege by União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola (UNITA) artillary.
Identifier: islandora:6987

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