THEIR BLOOD WATERS OUR FREEDOM | Namibian Heroes (Official Documentary)

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[@BradleySmith-ql6ch]

We had joy we had fun we had swapo on the run

[@georgesmith5093]

I served in the SADF on the Namibian border and have no animosity or hatred towards our former foes. I salute you people who were brave enough to take on the mighty SADF on the battlefield unlike other members of some of the liberation movements who could only make cowardly attacks on civilian targets. RIP all fallen soldiers on both sides of the conflict.

[@paulkaulinge434]

Good statement Mr Smith, but u knew Western alliance you were wrong ne

[@josephnakale7343]

SO I fought as PLAN fighter and holding no grudges whatsoever towards those I fought then.Despite our differences, we all fought for what we believed in.

[@patricktueumauntagpuleni1947]

🚮🚮

[@Ghoulza]

@@paulkaulinge434 " but u knew Western alliance you were wrong ne" no accurate. South west Africa was always going to be free the issue was SA wanted free and fair elections Swapo wanted to just be handed the country and they tried to get their way by killing civilians. Cuba and Russia wanted a stake in Africa and setup puppet governments so they could steal resources. that is what you were fighting for, we, SA, were fighting for Russia to stay out and for free and fair elections not just handing a country over to a terrorist organization

[@jupiteryandje8678]

Great comment to make

[@Hunter1968]

This is a very interesting version of events. The PLAN and SWAPO fighters were certainly tough. They survived in the bush for months at a time without much support. Altogether I am happy that Namibia is a peaceful and productive country. Long may it remain so.

[@jupiteryandje8678]

Good comment

[@prof_pm4659]

They should be showing this in schools... the future generations deserve to know

[@rosalinevandermerwe8743]

No they shouldn't. It's fake history,they were mostly cowards,always running dropping all their weapons

[@GambianoBahiano315]

@@rosalinevandermerwe8743 ok racist

[@ftwcrazyman]

That doesn't make it any better for the South Africans that failed to colonize them 💀

[@samanth.]

​@@rosalinevandermerwe8743probably the cowardly boers who can't fight Africans

[@Ghoulza]

@@ftwcrazyman SA had no intention of colonizing therm, that was Germany SA stopped Germany

[@vanzijlp]

Great doco, giving perspective...

[@kenbird9017]

It was difficult catching up with them when they fled from contact. They all tried to outrun one another.

[@SN-xk2rl]

And yet Namibia is there and you are gone. Funny how that works.

[@Hurkanos]

@@SN-xk2rl Dont forget that the USSR backed you, while SA was pressured into leaving SW by every power. You call this a fair fight?

[@hermanuushona]

But they made it not like you mercenaries traitors

[@kenbird9017]

@@hermanuushona you made it to what? A state very close to failure.

[@esahm373]

@@kenbird9017 Are you publicly admitting that you participated in the fascist colonial atrocities and war crimes against Namibians? If so, be glad we did not put you in front of a firing squad after we did succeed in liberating the country. You owe your life to the amnesty granted to you by SWAPO!

[@tangeni_mos]

This is really informative. First hand accounts from those who were involved in the battles to liberate our motherland. Even though we may not always show it, we thank you for the sacrifices you made in granting this beautiful country of ours the freedom it deserved and is now renowned for. Thank you comrades👍

[@frednel4326]

Ratel gunner from January 1979 onwards here 👋 😉.. interresting to see there side of the story

[@ianhall3822]

I blame the Portuguese. They fled Angola and Mozambique after the coup in Portugal, leaving those countries in chaos. The Portuguese were terrified of reprisals against them, for the way they had treated the blacks. Once Mozambique became independent, Ian Smith in Rhodesia, knew the game was up, and under pressure from John Vorster was forced to settle with Britain. A bad time to be in Southern Africa in the '70's and '80's. I saw it all.

[@patricktueumauntagpuleni1947]

Young people need to know how difficult it was for our people to get opportunities in their own land. Today, we should be ready to pick up the spear and defend the mother land like our parents did!

[@Queen_Esther2]

Truth is SADF was powerful and well equipped But PLAN fighters never waived best fighters✊

[@Ghoulza]

wrong, they ran most of the time and many turned on their comrades

[@jupiteryandje8678]

​@@Ghoulzaand how do you know this??

[@Ghoulza]

@@jupiteryandje8678 more than 20 years of research into the border wars, plus speaking to people who were there. many "comrades" were turned and went against their people. this has been well documented and is easy to find out for yourself

[@maonwaborehole1425]

long live Namibia

[@immanuelngendjo8310]

Class🔥🔥thank you so much for educating the youth

[@kasitaelia-kim8559]

Great job, this will remain in my archives

[@jupiteryandje8678]

Where are the freedom songs??

[@frednel4326]

Lol

[@miahm1]

i salute namibian freedom fighter from michigan usa and bangladesh.

[@williamloteka2828]

I like that history, it is almost similar like ours of South Sudan.

[@rockysinch7884]

He just had to sweep them out!!!!! Our heroes

[@nobodyinparticular709]

Hang on... so you telling me Cassinga was a refugee camp ? How many refugee camps have trench defence networks, bunkers, machine gun emplacements and ak47s stored?!?!

[@xmc7189]

Cassinga was a battlefield not a refugee camp. Please educate yourself about the right facts. You must be American?

[@Ghoulza]

@@xmc7189 he was being sarcastic

[@jupiteryandje8678]

​@@Ghoulzacassinga was a refugee camp that accommodated innocent unarmed men, women and children. The SADF were in the wrong to attack innocent civilians

[@FHARTZENGIGGLES]

No he's being sarcastic because when ever you racist communists got dealt you cried to the world that it were refugees camps. You also never won the war, SA gave you your country​@@xmc7189

[@ToastSoon4808]

No reference to SWAPO?

[@danielfourie7204]

All I say man I was not there but imagine koevoet casspirs and trackers are on your spoor so I heard some of these guys would turn and fight man taking on a casspir with s k s and rifle grenade.obviously this takes balls so if it is true that is not cowardly!anyway I never will know only the vets of the war know the truth.

[@Shetuhaufiku]

I have a new appreciation for my roots

[@victorreal-gndeikonghola7578]

It has been a long rough road.

[@streamsidecountry4049]

To where.... Poverty

[@warmonger8799]

😊😊😊

[@esahm373]

I find it very strange that after the "liberation" of Namibia the SWAPO government made no effort to hold former apartheid perpetrators accountable! Horrible atrocities and war crimes were committed by the apartheid forces, yet the judiciary under the SWAPO government was not allowed to initiate investigations and prosecutions against the perpetrators.

[@jupiteryandje8678]

True

[@pendoringagencies7892]

Koevoet was the best anti terrorist fightters in the world

[@hermanuushona]

They used to take the never surrender drugs otherwise not. They were the best kill civilians and not us Guerrillas

[@frednel4326]

@@hermanuushona you smoking what ??? 🤣🖕

[@samanth.]

Anti terrorists u mean anti- arpatheid

[@nunogonzalez4037]

All this Liberty Fighters trained and specialize their combat tactics in North Korea. The results were evident when confronted with the SADF in the bush.

[@andrewdutoit9571]

True, what a waste of a life...

[@hermanuushona]

@@andrewdutoit9571 They were always winning SADF

[@andrewdutoit9571]

@@hermanuushona I think you must re-examine your sources. The Body count in favour of the SADF is way too high for them to have lost at all. This wasn't football, the lower score wins....

[@hermanuushona]

Yes especially when they made Boers to shit in their cassipars troop carries in Angola

[@frednel4326]

@@hermanuushona seems you know nothing my tata, have you even been to school ?

[@hdmoviescinema7634]

Kwaziwa oko kule💔💔💔we free borns will never understand

[@jupiteryandje8678]

Im born free and i understand.

[@Livelaughlove782]

People without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. Marcus Garvey

[@H3LL0K1TTYG4M3S]

This was the day me: I cried when we saw them die with my mom

[@slater3570]

Glory to Namibia and God 🇳🇦

[@The_VChamp]

North Korea or South Korea?

[@juniornam1186]

North

[@rogersmith7555]

Served SADF infantry conscript 1976 - 1984. The PLAN fighters I encountered in the 70's were clearly brave and determined. At that stage their equipment was better than SADF equipment, and more suited to Owambo conditions. Perhaps understandably (in some circumstances only), they were unfortunately unacceptably cruel to the people of Namibia who were sometimes traumatised by, and sometimes maimed and killed by PLAN. The war was unnecessary and unfortunate. Under the administration of the SA government the Owambo, Kavango, and Caprivi people were largely self-governing. The SWAPO leaders were power-hungry. Without all the pain and killing on both sides, the same result would eventually have been arrived at? My opinion...

[@mwanykange]

SWAPO had spoken to RSA but the South African government refused for peaceful means and that emanate to the war escalation. Resolution 435 was supposed to be implemented in 1978 but south Africa betrayed the negotiation and opted to attack the Cassinga settlement and indiscriminately killed thousands of innocent civilians, I was among the survivors of such atrocity at age of 15 years old.

[@frednel4326]

@@mwanykange South African military never killed innocent civilians deliberately but accidents do happen, speacialy if civilians are with swapo terrorists at the time of attack, we only went for the threat to South Africa and got them in there breading grounds because these people wer causing huge safety issues to South Africa and everyone within its borders, like planting bombs in populated areas within our borders and on the border itself killing many innocent people and to this day there's people blowing up from unfound mines n shit, there's tons of evidence of this as there's many from close by villages who have been living with half there boddy parts blown away, so if you don't know what I'm talking about then stop talking shit and Learn the facts first, it was always in our iterrest to protect innocent people nomatter what country they might be from and assisted and protected many of these village people and long after the conflict we still had forces out there trying to detect and destroy these terrible weapons, how would you respond if this happened in your country ?, just sit there like a coward and let it happen or go out and fight it like a man ?, so get ur facts right my dude, we wer actualy the good guys and not what ur trying to make people believe 😉

[@mwanykange]

@@frednel4326 First before I comment I want to know what is your country, you dude? Secondly, I would like to know which year did you serve in the South African Army or you're just a kid who is playing on a computer. Thirdly, Before I comment and answer you I wanna know are really understand that I am talking through experience? How Far is Cassinga from South Africa? I hope Once I hear from you I will be able to answer you, right now I may speak to a programmed apartheid statute. Do you know about the created a 1km from Angola/Namibia border from Beacon no.1 Kunene River to Beacon 47 Katwitwi in Kavango River (470 km a South African slaughter zone).

[@kalahari9558]

​@@mwanykange 1000's? Maybe you are referring to Mugabe in Zimbabwe. Check your facts

[@glenvanzyl8985]

Nobody brought the SADF to their knees, apart from sanctions

[@ianhinrichsendrummer2113]

Exactly. 17 and 18 year old boys taking on the Soviet Union, FAPLA, PLAN, MPLA, and Cuba and chased them all the way back into Angola.

[@terrancecharles2108]

Crap. The cubans kick your a## in Angola

[@captainfreedom3649]

@@ianhinrichsendrummer2113 No credit for the thousands of UNITA and other black cannonfodder that stood between you and them? I wonder why this is always omitted...

[@IansDrumsandBass]

​@@captainfreedom3649I wouldn't exactly call it standing between us and them, more a case of SA standing between them. If it wasn't for the SADF, UNITA would've crumbled. But you are right, UNITA didn't get the credit they deserve.

[@IstvanOroszi-lb3yo]

Brave and tough freedom fighters. I salute you.

[@angulaaagula5926]

Hello, Our mentality are not free from Colonialisms evils!! And Fears of luck spiritual freedom

[@welcomelarry7456]

The 17 that disliked is everything fine

[@user-sw1sg6oo2q]

I like Tate haulyondjaba

[@mhlangamlungisi5108]

man at 3328 talking in blue cap is wearing a Rhodesian army combat jacket how come

[@kaiserreichempireofohio834]

It was probably a very common uniform in the region do to similar climate and whatnot, it's also likely it was sold from the same manufacturer who made Rhodesian Uniforms. That or it was bought from a bush war veteran or the veteran's family.

[@Honeybee897]

You can wear anything you feel comfortable with. Do you also realise that the Cap in imprinted NAMIBIA.

[@johnjenkins427]

It is not Rhodesian camouflage. It looks similar however, at first glance. It has the same colours and similar brush stroke patterns. Maybe it was inspired by the old Rhodesian pattern but it is not the pattern they used during the Bush War there prior to the country becoming Zimbabwe. As far as I know many of the cammo uniforms, in the region, were inspired by Portuguese and French designs, so there could be overlapping similarities.

[@esahm373]

@@johnjenkins427 PLAN had East German designed uniforms as far as I know!

[@percypercerton2125]

People think “clans” make the world strong. Sadly, it’s “clans” that are the worst thing to happen to humanity.

[@talbot9372]

Sins wen did thay bring us to ore need. The commies went away.

[@johanngiesbrecht6460]

Yes, anywhere outside of Namibia and within Namibia it should be said that the Germans were the most benevolent colonists. Germany's handling of the few colonies it had was generally significantly better than most other countries, accompanied by actual investment in the regions rather than just being exploitative. Britain commits only the violent suppression of colonial uprisings. French authorities abused and tortured Algerian civilians. Electroshocks and the use of water wells as prisons were among the methods used by the colonialist authorities against prisoners in Algeria. Anywhere else you would see genocides larger than the genocide in Namibia. Except that these facts are not convenient for people to know as it would deal a blow to France and England and not Germany

[@Charles-by5ns]

No

[@pieterwillembotha6719]

That must have been a lot of blood. lol.

[@liberatorhifenua5490]

that's a slogan and yes there was alot of blood and at the end they got what they deserved

[@pieterwillembotha6719]

@@liberatorhifenua5490 who did?

[@liberatorhifenua5490]

@@pieterwillembotha6719 those who made up the slogan obviously who else

[@ritilishndimulunde4133]

Botha, are you still alive?

[@pieterwillembotha6719]

@@ritilishndimulunde4133 South Africa sure ain't. lol

[@zoltancsikos5604]

This comes off as a poorly executed propaganda piece.

[@Matt-tt6hc]

you got it in one, the music, the "old veteran" outfits, the ridiculous dictator uniforms, I'm only a few minutes into the video, but I bet they ask for money at the end. Every turf world country I went to had some idiot the people elected after they killed the last guy, then they're all embarrassed and can't admit they screwed up, so they blame the USA for giving them weapons (even though they wanted them) but their new leader they elected bankrupted , raped, killed everybody he ever had a problem with and gave all the jobs to his friends. USA cuts the aid, so they ask Russia, that doesn'twork out, now they tell every journalist that USA won't help and its every white persons fault. You guys throw rocks at me for building a clinic (you burglarize everything the next day) you finally shut up when we give money, the strong immediately Rob each other, buy drugs and moonshine as their kids starve. You will never be able to govern yourselves until you can do it with out any help, and apply common sense. The most repeated phrase: "give me money! America need give me moneys! We no got nuffin, babies hungry!"

[@johan2021]

Not all the information is correct. A biiger picture would be found here:"en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_Border_War