Angolan defence ministry announced South African troop had advanced up to 90 miles into southern Angola and had occupied SCVCI LOWIIS Then on 24 August, just before Operation Protea the defence ministry said that 45 people had been killed in a series of South African air strikes. nah of the eastern pro vince of KwandoKubango.
Often they are supported directly by South African troops, according to revelations made to the Guardian earlier this year by Trevor Edwards, mercent wando who fought Kubango special South African force, went out of its way to let Pretoria off the hook after Opera. tion Protea Chester Crocker said that the US would not weaken Is sup port for Pretoria "to curry favour elsewhere'; and a Department spokesman argued that the South African incursior into Angola had to be seer "in its full context', namel the use ol Angolan ter ritory by SWAPO.
This admission hostility to the Namibiar people's struggle for dependence received higi marks from the rulers o apartheid South Africa al C obvious!!
pleased tha the Uniter adopts mor realistic stance thar th others. said an official u Cape Britain France and West Germar verbally condemned th African attack o Angola, but they continu resoluteiv to oppose posing sanctions agains South Africa to force halt to the attacks.
After all, like thi United States, the have a hug economic stake South Africa and se its racist rulers as strategic bulwark inferests southern Africa. Socialist Challenge 3 September 1981 Page 3