How we evaded crocodiles to survive Cassinga: Selma Simon

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2025-05-05

WINDHOEK, 04 May 2025 - Cassinga massacre survivor, Selma Simon. (Photo by: Eba Kandovazu) NAMPA

WINDHOEK, 05 MAY (NAMPA)- At 18 years old, Selma Simon, now 65, witnessed the brutal killing of her family, friends, and comrades, an experience she says has traumatised her for life.
For Simon and hundreds of others, 04 May 1978 began as just another morning at an exile camp in Cassinga, southern Angola.
The South African Defence Force targeted the camp, which was inhabited by exiled South West Africa People's Organisation (SWAPO) sympathisers a...

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