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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Cassinga is a former town in the Hu la province of southern Angola. The transliteration Kassinga is also commonly used, with the K being a mutation of the original Portuguese name either by German miners, or by indigenous people in whose language the letter K is also common. Photographs of the name in stone next to the road indicate local use the original Portuguese spelling. Nearby is the site of an old iron ore mine once built by the Portuguese authorities and Krupp. During 1966-67 a major iron ore terminal was built in the coast by the Portuguese at Saco, the bay just 12 km north of Mo medes (present day Namibe). The client was the Compania Mineira do Lobito, the Lobito Mining Company, which developed an iron ore mine inland at Cassinga. The construction of the mine installations and 300 km railway were commissioned to Krupp of Germany and the modern harbour terminal to SETH, a Portuguese company owned by Hojgaard & Schultz of Denmark. The small fishing town of Mo medes hosted construction workers, foreign engineers and their families for 2 years.

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