November 25, 1987

During the night we again heard the helicopter. As the reconnaissance of our brigade has announced, South Africans are concentrated 20 kilometers to the east of us. There the noise of engines is constantly heard, helicopters are flying, and from there their artillery is shelling us. Today, after dinner, we were bombarded by their 120-millimeter mortars. At 17:00 our first battalion was engaged in heavy fighting. So far the results are unknown.