South African Border War

The South African Border War, also known as the Namibian War of Independence and, within South Africa, sometimes as the Angolan Bush War, was a largely asymmetric conflict fought in Namibia (then South West Africa), Zambia and Angola from 26 August 1966 to 21 March 1990. It pitted the South African Defence Force, at times joined by allied Angolan and Portuguese forces, against the Peoples Liberation Army of Namibia, the armed wing of the South West African Peoples Organisation, which was in turn supported by Cuba, Angola, the Soviet Union, East Germany and Zambia. The war ended in a military stalemate that led to the 1988 Tripartite Accord, under which South African and Cuban forces withdrew from Angola, paving the way for Namibian independence elections in 1989 and formal independence on 21 March 1990. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/