South African violations of the northern Namibian border have continued since the period covered by the Angolan government's report submitted to the UN Security Council in July 1979. In a communique issued on 10 July, for example, the Angolan Defence Ministry reported that Angolan anti-aircraft guns had shot down a South African Mirage fighter bomber during raids on Southern Angola in which 11 Angolans died. The casualties, four Angolan soldiers and seven civilians, were killed when a force of six SA Mirage and Buceaneer planes bombed the town of Ngiva in Cunene province on 6 July.
Another South African attack was made on a farm near Lubango in Huila province now used as a school for Namibian refugee children, according to the Defence Ministry communique. There was some damage but no casualties were reported.
Again, in a communique issued on 30 August, the Angolan Ministry of Defence reported that between 16 July and 23 August South African troops had "intensified their aggressive warlike activity with reconnaissance flights over our territory in search of SWAPO groups, provoking our military units and defenceless people with the aim of forcing our people to withdraw their support from SWAPO's struggle for the liberation of their territory". Incidents mentioned in the communique were as follows:
16 July - Two SA Canberras launched a rocket and cannon attack on a school, a residence and a people's shop in Chetequera settlement.
20 July - Two Canberras again flew over Chetequera, bombing the southern area of the settlement.
21 July - Three companies of SA commandos penetrated between 10 and 40 km into Angola. One company was accompanied by UNITA guerillas.
22 July - Two unidentified SA planes overflew the Chitato area and then disappeared in the direction of Calueque.
23 July - SA helicopter-borne troops landed in Muango settlement.
24 July - A company of SA commandos penetrated 20 km into Angola.
25 July - Five Angolan soldiers were killed and three others were captured and taken back into Namibia when an 11-man Angolan frontier guard unit on a reconnaissance mission 10 km south of Chiede found itself completely surrounded by SA Puma helicopters.
2 Aug - SA helicopter-borne troops landed in Chiede, Sovaca and Omulemba areas "with the aim of protecting the so-called UNITA gangs".
8 Aug - Two Canberras bombed the Cuamato commune.
15 Aug - Two lorries of the Angola Interior Trade Department supplying foodstuffs to the people of Cuamato were attacked by SA forces. On the same day another Interior Trade lorry was bombed by a Mirage plane on the Cuamato-Changongo road. A further lorry transporting food to the people of Nepolo was bombed by SA aircraft, and the driver was killed by SA ground troops. The lorry and its contents were taken back into Namibia by the South Africans.
16 Aug - SA troops ambushed a group of Angolan troops in Chetequera area.
23 Aug - SA helicopter-borne troops attacked Chiate settlement.
A spokesman for the SADF stated at the end of August that the recent allegations of SA attacks on targets in the south of Angola were "propaganda stunts" to which the SADF preferred not to react.
An Angolan Defence Ministry communique condemned air raids by 10 South African Mirage and Impala aircraft on 26 September on Lubango, the capital of Huila Province, and Changonga in Cunene Province. In the former, 26 people were killed and some 84 wounded, in the latter, 34 were killed and some 70 wounded, all civilians.
Six South African brigades, each with 3000 men, backed by artillery and aircraft, were reported to be concentrated on the Angolan-Namibian border on 13 October. Angolan officials said that the aircraft were making reconnaissance flights almost every day, particularly over Cunene Province. The Angolan fifth Military Command charged that South Africa had carried out 18 bombing raids on Angola during September.
The Angolan Defence Ministry reported on 19 October that a South African Air Force Impala fighter bomber and a Puma helicopter were shot down by anti-aircraft units on 18 October, when six South African aircraft and helicopters bombed the Ompanda area some 11 km from Ngiva the capital of Cunene Province.
A major attack by South African forces was reported from Angola at the end of October. According to a communique from the Political Bureau of the MPLA, South African helicopter-borne troops had attacked several areas in Angola on 28 October. 19 French-built Puma helicopters carrying troops landed in the western towns of Lubango and Mocamedes 200 km north of the border with Namibia, killing 18 civilians and two members of the Angolan Army. They destroyed part of the Mocamedes railway line including a tunnel, and four bridges on the Mocamedes-Lubango road. Five light vehicles and a bus were also destroyed.
A further 11 Puma helicopters carrying 150 specialist troops reportedly landed in Porto Alexandre, further south on the Atlantic coast, and in the nearby town of Virei, laying mines and "carrying out criminal acts against the defenceless population". Angola's Ambassador in Belgium requested an urgent meeting of the United Nations Security Council to discuss the attacks. The South African Foreign Minister denied the charges, claiming that they were "a smoke screen to divert attention from the fact that Angola harbours guerillas". A South African Defence Force spokesman said South Africa had previously made it clear it was not looking for confrontation with neighbouring states.
Angolan television subsequently showed a film of bodies of children and adults lying on roads attacked by South African helicopters during the raid, according to the Angolan news agency Angop. Angop quoted a Portuguese adviser, interviewed by Angolan television, as saying he was travelling in a car when it was strafed by two South African Puma helicopters. One of the occupants was killed by machine gun fire, but he and his companion managed to escape.
A communique from the Angolan Defence Ministry issued on 7 November 1979 reported that, as part of its "attempts to destabilize the economic life of the People's Republic of Angola", South Africa is continuing to unleash a series of acts of provocation. The communique listed the following incidents:
3 November: a formation of South African helicopters dropped charged with explosives with the aim of completely destroying Cunene bridge.
4 November: Four South African helicopters attacked one of our troop positions in Chingongo and were repulsed.
5 November: South African reconnaissance aircraft overflew the Ompanda area and Calveque in Southern Cunene. Another South African aircraft made a rocket attack on an area 7 km from the capital of Cunene.
6 November: A South African infantry unit mined the frontier on the way to Chiede. South African aircraft bombed the environs of Ngiva town, while airborne troops mined the road leading to Ngiva, killing three civilians and destroying a motor vehicle.
An incursion into Angola was reported to have taken place at the end of November, when South Africa claimed to have attacked a number of temporary SWAPO bases across the border and killed 68 guerillas in a hot pursuit raid.
Luanda radio reported on 12 December that "the South African Army and Airforce are daily attacking Cunene province, mining roads and killing defenceless civilians.
