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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

Title: Playing ball
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002--Social aspects, War victims--Angola, Children--Angola, Rehabilitation--Angola, Victims of war--Rehabilitation--Angola,
Description: An injured child plays ball at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Centre in Kuito in the Bié Province of Angola. He had been injured while travelling on his mother's back in 1991.
Identifier: islandora:6999

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

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