Reconnaissance teams of Golf and Echo Company 32 Battalion report the existence of a group of SWAPO at Evale
Post Timelines
22 Mar 1987 Mupa
Charlie Company 32 Battalion is given instructions to move into Mupa, by which time SWAPO has abandoned their base there. Mupa is held for 2 days and then handed over to UNITA
21 Mar 1987 Mupa
Charlie Company 32 Battalion is sent to confirm the presence of SWAPO at Mupa. A fierce fire fight ensues but contact is broken because of SWATF orders not to engage FAPLA
12 Mar 1987 Evale
Golf Company 32 Battalion engage with a group of 40 SWAPO in a heavy fire fight near Evale. Rfn. R Sikote is KIA and 5 members are wounded including Lt. D. da Sousa (Operation Kakebeen)
5 Mar 1987 Evale
A contact is initiated between a 4 man reconnaissance team from 32 Battalion and 20 SWAPO 12-km north-east of Evale (Operation Kakebeen)
3 Feb 1987 Cassumbi
FAPLA deploy a tank company, a ZU-23 mobile platoon and a BM-21 to Cassumbi to counter 32 Battalion activities
31 Jan 1987 Cassumbi
Delta Company of 32 Battalion under the command of Lt. J. Brand prepare to attack the SWAPO base at Cassumbi, but the reconnaissance wing reports that it has been abandoned. However, a second base is located in the area and it is a hive of activity. A decision is made...
29 Dec 1983 Lubango
A formation of four 24 Squadron Buccaneers attacked the Tactical Headquarters of SWAPO outside Lubango
12 Feb 1975 Cangumbe
UNITA, South African ‘Military Intelligence’ officials and members of ‘BOSS’ (Bureau of State Security) met at Cangumbe (Angola) to discuss ‘matters of mutual affairs’
6 Feb 1988 Cuito Cuanavale
A SAAF Buccaneer formation flew a second strike using the H2 weapon system against the Cuito Cuanavale bridge, the results were reported inconclusive
25 Jan 1987 Mongua
7 x SAAF Alouette III Gunships and 4 x Impala Mk II’s strike targets in the Mongua area
4 May 1988 Donguena
A SWATF unit, the 101 Battalion, with twenty Casspirs  and two trucks had been sent forward to occupy Donguena. They ran into an ambush 2 km south of Donguena with Cubans destroying or damaging four Casspirs. The South Africans withdrew at dusk having lost seven men...
18 Apr 1988 Chipeque
A SWATF 101 Battalion force in pursuit of SWAPO was ambushed by over 200 Cubans near Chipeque (20 miles southeast of Xangongo). 2 x SADF killed and 11 wounded
25 Nov 1985 Menongue
An "Aeroflot" Antonov AN-12 cargo airplane in route from Cuito Cuanavale to Luanda was shot down by a SADF 5 Special Forces Team operating with UNITA and crashed approximately 43 km from Menongue using a captured  "Strela-1" on a BRDM-2 chassis
26 Nov 1983 Chipolo
3 x SADF 32 Battalion reconnaissance teams moved into the target area for Operation Askari and began liaising with the UNITA forces deployed around Chipolo
8 Dec 1985 Cuito
A single SAAF Buccaneer carried out a successful LOROP (Long Range Oblique Photography) of the Cuito bridge and Angolan brigade concentrations east and west of the river.