Berlin Wall

The Berlin Wall fell 30 years ago, but new walls are going up everywhere

OpinionPier Paolo Frassinelli, Melissa Tandiwe Myambo | 2019-11-08 00:00:00

Tomorrow, remembrances will be held around the world to mark the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The wall was a potent symbol of...

The time has come for democratic Africa

AnalysisTerence McNamee | 2014-11-07 00:00:00

Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo's famous dictum was applied to American political scientist Francis Fukuyama's...

The old Wall fell, but new ones rise up

WorldPeter Vale | 2014-11-07 00:00:00

When the Berlin Wall came down, 25 years ago, I was in Lusaka, Zambia.

Berlin: Achtung South Africa

Arts and CultureLauren van Vuuren | 2013-03-28 00:00:00

Why Berlin? U2’s Bono was once asked about why the band chose to record their great album Achtung Baby there in 1989. To record an...

Hasselhoff returns to Berlin to save the wall he helped to topple

Arts and CultureGuardian Reporter | 2013-03-19 15:38:00

Despite being celebrated for the righteous war he and his robotic car waged on criminals, for his selfless, slow-motion patrols of the beaches of...

Czech politician and playwright Havel passes on

OpinionKarel Janicek | 2011-12-18 14:52:00

Vaclav Havel, the dissident playwright who wove theatre into politics to peacefully bring down communism in Czechoslovakia and become a hero of the...

Berlin Wall Trail a surreal journey into city's past

WorldErik Kirschbaum | 2011-08-10 17:17:00

It was once one of the world's most deadly frontiers but has since been converted into one of the planet's most fascinating bicycle paths -- a...

Selling red

Arts and CultureAzad Essa | 2009-11-27 06:00:00

Ali was barely five years old, playing with his toys in Pakistan, when the Berlin Wall came down. Twenty years later, he stands behind the grand...

All wall down

WorldKatharina Von Ruckteschell | 2009-11-06 15:53:00

On November 9 1989 the Berlin Wall fell. People from East Berlin flocked to West Berlin, and were enthusiastically received and celebrated. Berlin...

Fall wall confronts fear and paranoia of city users

WorldAlexander Opper | 2009-11-06 15:27:00

In May 2009 the Goethe-Institut approached the department of architecture at the University of Johannesburg's faculty of art, design and architecture, with an invitation to participate in the larger framework of the institute's Cracking Walls project....

As a legacy of struggle, protest is in the blood

World | 2009-11-06 15:16:00

"If the past has nothing to say to the present, history may go on sleeping undisturbed in the closet where the system keeps its old disguises." --...

The day the border opened

WorldTorsten Schulz | 2009-11-06 15:13:00

From Marzahn the wall wasn't exactly just around the corner. Suddenly it was open, if Günter Schabowski hadn't permitted himself a little...

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