| | On 1 April 1989 many thousands on Namibians gathered to celebrate the beginning of the decolonisation process through the implementation of UN Resolution 435. In the event South African military forces, which should have been confined to base from 4 a.m. from 1 April 1989, but were not, attacked SWAPO forces, thereby also breaking the ceasefire. All eye-witness accounts of the incident at Okahenge which sparked off the fighting speak of 'South African military forces' (whether the South African Defence Forces (SADF), the South West African Territorial Force (SWATF) or Koevoet counter-insurgency irregulars) attacking SWAPO forces who had enquired as to the whereabouts of the United Nations Technical Assistance Group (UNTAG), in an effort to hand themselves over to confinement to base. |
