Battle on the Lomba 1987

A South African national serviceman recounts becoming a soldier and an ensuing David-and-Goliath face-off against Angolan armed forces in 1987.The climactic death-throes of Soviet Communism during the 1980s included a last-gasp attempt at strategic franchise expansion in southern Africa. Channeled through Castro''s Cuba, oil-rich Angolan armed forces (FAPLA) received billions of dollars of advance...