Nine Days of War and South Africa's Final Days in Namibia Peter Stiff

Nine Days of War and South Africa's Final Days in Namibia

Author: Peter Stiff   

Publisher: Lemur Books Pty Ltd, Alberton, South Africa

Edition: Fully Revised New Edition 1991

ISBN 0-0620-14874-8

Condition: Very good. Clean copy 

Language: English 

Binding: Softcover  

Pages: 304. Text with images 

Additional Information

On 1 April, 1989, after an agreement had been reached between South Africa and the U.N. to hold free and fair elections in Namibia, a large force of heavily-armed SWAPO guerrillas flooded across the Angola/Namibian border in an attempt to seize control of the country before elections could be held.

One of the conditions of the agreement had been that South Africa would withdraw most of its troops and demobilise the SWATF (South West Africa Territorial Force). This had been almost completed and SWAPO believed that they would encounter no resistance in their takeover of the country. Standing in the way of their success was a thin blue line of 1200 SWATF policemen, many of them former members of the elite counter-insurgency unit, Koevoet. For nine days they fought SWAPO to a standstill and prevented the planned invasion.

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