May 4 marked the 29th anniversary of one of the most controversial episodes in the history of the old South African Defence Force - the Battle of Cassinga in Angola, long represented as a grotesque ...

Cassinga is not just a date on the calendar or a scar in the liberation archive. It is a question that keeps pressing itself into Namibia’s conscience. What did all that suffering mean, if not to ...

ONE evening early 1977, eleven new recruits, including myself, were summoned to the commander's office at Oshitumba. We were to be part of the fighters accompanying newly-arrived civilians to Cassinga ...

Harare — AT daybreak on May 4, 1978, South African planes flew over Cassinga, a Namibian refugee camp in southern Angola. Claudia Ushona, who was then a sixteen-year old refugee living in the camp, ...