Cuba and the struggle for democracy in South Africa
… in Cuba, culminating in Fidel Castro’s seizure of power on 1 January 1959, was from the beginning based on a non-racial … launched Operation Askari, and attacked Sumbe with 1,500 UNITA forces in tow. Nevertheless, their advance was … relations were maintained throughout the 1980s. In May 1990 Chris Hani, chief of the General Staff of MK, asked the …