Aug 27, 2025 | North Eastern Front, SWAPO Units
Ashipala was a PLAN military commander in the 1970s and 1980s. He earned notoriety for capturing South African soldier, Johan van der Mescht, in an operation in Namibia in 1978. Became Commander of the North-Eastern Front
Aug 27, 2025 | North Eastern Front, SWAPO Units
Joined OPO in 1959 and subsequently became a SWAPO member in 1960. He left MPLA and joined SWAPO military wing PLAN in 1964 in Lusaka, Zambia after the military training in Soviet Union 1963. He began conducting military operations in Namibia in the area of Katima...
