South African Border WarNamibia / Angola / South Africa · 1966–1989“The keepers of the atlas wrote this one down so the fire would not forget it.”For twenty-three years apartheid South Africa fought SWAPO along the Namibian-Angolan border, and the border war swallowed everything around it: Angola's civil war, Cuban expeditionary armies, Soviet advisers, the whole Cold War folded into the bush of Ovamboland.