From right to left: N. V. Kurushkin, Sam NuJoma, Peter Nanyemba
and SWAPO functionaries observe the training of PLAN fighters, 1982, Lubango. Photo from the archive of N. V. Kurushkin

SWAPO leadership and Soviet military advisers watch a PLAN special forces team training. In the center Sam Nujoma and the SAF team leader at SVS at SWAPO Colonel Boris Dmitrievich Perebillo. On the right is Captain Valery Nikolaevich Skvortsov, who was engaged in training special forces, on the left is a specialist in the tactics of partisan…Read More

Review of the PLAN motorized infantry brigade at the T. Haineko Training Center. 1985. Photo from the archive of V. Stryukov

Training of a PLAN reconnaissance group. In the center F.M. Zulkarneev, Jumbo training ground, Lubango, 1985 Photo from F. Zulkarneev’s archive

Advisor and his sub-adviser. Senior of the SAF group of the SWAPO training center named after Tobias Haineko Colonel Ivan Grigorievich Zherlitsyn and the head of this training center, PLAN commander Joshua. Lubango, 1979. Photo from the archive of I. Zherlitsyn

Inspection at the Tobias Haineko Training Center. To the right of SWAPO Defense Minister Peter Nanyemba is the senior of the first group of Soviet military specialists at SWAPO in Angola, Colonel Yuri Sergeevich Zaputryaev, and translator Mikhail Petrovich Suknov. On the far left in the photo is Lieutenant Alexander Sergeevich Kuryanov. 1977.…Read More

Advisor to the PLAN commander in 1979–1983, Colonel Nikolai Vasilyevich Kurushkin, greets fighters from one of the African NODs, Angola, 1980s. Photo from N. Kurushkin’s archive.

A firearms training session at the Jumbo training center shooting range. In the center is military interpreter Lieutenant Ferid Munirovich Zulkarneev. Soviet specialists at the training center often assigned trained interpreters to conduct some of the training themselves. Among the SWAPO fighters, sitting on the right, is adviser Lieutenant…Read More

At the Tobias Haineko Training Center. In the center is Colonel Ivan Grigorievich Zherlitsyn, on the right is PLAN leadership member Comrade Ushona, Lubango, 1979. Photo from the archive of I. Zherlitsyn.

Before being sent to the front. Ceremonial formation of the PLAN brigade trained at the Tobias Haineko Training Center. Lubango region, 1979. Photo from the archive of I. Zherlitsyn.

This speech by the late Plan Commander Peter Nanyemba during the struggle will open your eyes on exactly how the Swapo revolution was betrayed. 34 years later, we still don’t have the land and Swapo is fighting IPC on who should be friends with European Land Owners.

SWAPO-PLAN with a B-10 recoilless rifle

Retired Genera Martin Shali far left and retired General Chalse “Ho Chi Minh” Namoloh 2nd from left backrow with Cubans and FAPLA Forces ,1988.

from left Peter Nanyemba (then SWAPO’s Secretary Of Defence),Colonel Nikolai Khrushkin of the red Army and military Advisor to PLAN and Uuno ‘Kanana’ Shaanika (then North West Front Commander).

PLAN commanders From left: Lt Rtd General Martin Shalli, Commander Nashandi, a Russian Military Advisor and Rtd Major General Charles Ndaxu “Hochi Mihn” Mamholo.

SWAPO guerrillas during South African Border War. (South-West Africa, 1980s)

PLAN combatants arive at Ruacana border

South West Africa People’s Organization (SWAPO) troops in Angola use brush to camouflage a lorry carrying weapons and ammunition near the Namibian border. Detachments like these penetrate Namibian territory to engage South African forces.

A detachment of South West Africa People’s Organization(SWAPO) soldiers firing mortar rounds against South African forces operating in their homeland of Namibia across the Angolan border.

A detachment of South West Africa People’s Organization (SWAPO) soldiers mounting a mortar attack against South African forces operating across the border in Namibia.

PLAN combatants

Sam Nujoma and Peter Nanyemba observing PLAN combatants marching at a parade at THTC, near Lubango

PLAN Commander in Chief Sam Nujoma

SWAPO leaders with commanders of PLAN