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SOUTH AFRICAN BORDER WAR

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30 Aug 1988 – Ruacana

The last of the South African troops withdraw from Angola, crossing the temporary steel bridge into SWA/Namibia and watched by the world's media and the Joint Monitoring Commission, 36 hours early than the planned time.

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