Matias Ndakolo
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Matias 'Mbulunganga' Ndakolo (born 25 December 1943 – 4 December 2018) was a revered military commander and a guerrilla fighter of the People Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN) a military wing of South West Africa People's Organisation (SWAPO). He was a founding PLAN commander of north-east front during Namibian War of Independence.[1]
Mbulunganga Ndakolo 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, Zamibia after the military training in Soviet Union 1964. He began conducting military operationin Namibia in the area of Katima Mulilo and across Cuando river in Angola.[2]