Nelson Mandela said when he came out of prison in 1991:

‘‘Cuito Cuanavale marks the turn in the struggle to rid the continent and our country of the scourge of apartheid! The decisive defeat of the aggressive apartheid forces destroyed the myth of the invincibility of the white oppressor. The defeat of the apartheid army served as an inspiration to the struggling people of South Africa.” (1991). This short clip shows the end of the last battle in the Cold War. The battle for Cuito Cuanavale in Angola was the largest set-piece battle on the African continent since the second world war in North Africa according to Horace Campbell  (Campbell, H. p.1 1990) The South African Defence Force (SADF) and the US supported rebel Angolan UNITA forces were pitted against the Angolan Government supported by Cuba and Russia.