Berlin Wall

Until power is made boring, limited and reversible, yesterday’s victims will continue to become tomorrow’s oppressors and the cycle will remain unbroken

The body’s inaction during the Iraq war and Russia’s annexation of the Crimea makes it weaker when it comes to negotiation peace in the Middle East

A resurgent conspiracy theory that Nelson Mandela died in 1985 reveals the growing hopelessness in South Africa that rampant inequality is irreversible

The Berlin Wall fell 30 years ago but today we have more borders and walls than ever

The fall of the Berlin Wall 25 years ago has not led to the better world many hoped its collapse foretold.

When the Berlin Wall fell 25 years ago, world politics changed forever. But did Africa benefit?

In a wonderful, terrible city that wears its scars on its sleeve, Lauren van Vuuren discovers the Berlin in all of us.

The Hoff returns to Germany’s capital to battle property developers looking to tear down final fragment of wall.

Vaclav Havel, the playwright who wove theatre into politics to peacefully bring down communism in Czechoslovakia, has died.

The Berliner Mauerweg follows the Berlin Wall’s 160km route and the accompanying "death strip" that encircled West Berlin during the Cold War.

Ali was barely five years old when the Berlin Wall came down. Twenty years later, he sells remnants of Germany’s communist past to tourists.

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

The Goethe-Institut approached the department of architecture at UJ with an invitation to participate in the Cracking Walls project.

The new South Africa owes a debt of gratitude to all those who sang the songs and manned the barricades 20 years ago, writes Mandla Langa.

Torsten Schulz recalls the trip he made from East Germany into the West.