Anonymous OP 20w

So Namibia was an occupied territory where the majority of its inhabitants were denied citizenship rights, except for those of a specific ruling ethnicity. Just like the West Bank. And black Namibians (like black South Africans) were denied South African citizenship because they were said to be citizens instead of the bantustan puppet states. Again, like the West Bank. It’s simultaneously Israeli territory but also the locals are supposed to be foreigners.

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Anonymous OP 20w

In 1962, Namibian independence groups set up militant bases in Angola and Zambia, with the intent being to use these sites to liberate Namibia. Similar to Palestinian militant groups basing themselves in Lebanon.

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Anonymous OP 20w

South Africa ended up invading massive swaths of Angola, with the goal being to root out Namibian independence forces and to install the anti-communist side of the Angolan civil war as the leaders of the country. South Africa used Angolan anti-communist forces as proxies, just like how Israel used Maronite militias as proxies during their occupation in the 1980s. A difference is that South Africa only directly occupied with their own forces between 1975 and 1977.

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Anonymous OP 20w

South African politicians at the time actually regarded it similarly to the Israeli Palestinian conflict. This is a quote from the South African prime minister at the time (split up weird because it’s a digitization of paper news)

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