Saunders, Christopher (University of Cape Town)14/02/201414/02/20142011Saunders, C. (2011). The South Africa-Angola talks, 1976-1984: a little-known cold war thread. Kronos, 37: 104-1190259-0190https://hdl.handle.net/10566/1018Published versionThat South Africa invaded Angola in 1975, in an abortive attempt to prevent a Marxist government coming to power there, and that the South African Defence Force then repeatedly attacked Angola from 1978, is relatively well known. That representatives of the South African and Angolan governments met on many occasions from 1976 is a largely untold story. This article uses documentation from the archives of the Department of International Relations and Cooperation, along with other sources, to analyse these talks and the Cold War context in which they took place.enCopyright author. This file may be freely used for educational uses, as long as it is not altered in any way. No commercial reproduction or distribution of this file is permitted without written permission of the copyright holderSouth Africa-Angola talks, 1976-1984Cold warSouth African Defence ForceArticle