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The late former president of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe. Photo: Jesse Awalt

Yesterday’s victims, tomorrow’s oppressors

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

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Editorial: The UN must regain its credibility

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

Once canonised and unassailable, the legacy of Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s most iconic political figure, is now tortured.  (Dee Mula/Twitter)

On conspiracy theories and hopelessness in the Rainbow Nation

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

Celebrate: East and West German citizens climbed the Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg Gate after the opening of the East German border was announced in Berlin on November 9 1989. (Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters)

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

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

The time has come for democratic Africa

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

A report has argued for an increase in the minimum time for degree and diploma programmes.

The old Wall fell, but new ones rise up

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

The memorial of the Berlin Wall at Bernauer Strasse

Berlin: Achtung South Africa

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

David Hasselhoff

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

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

Czech politician and playwright Havel passes on

Czech politician and playwright Havel passes on

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

Berlin Wall Trail a surreal journey into city’s past

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

Selling red

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.

All wall down

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

Fall wall confronts fear and paranoia of city users

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

As a legacy of struggle, protest is in the blood

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.

The day the border opened

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

Twenty years on, world celebrates fall of Berlin Wall

Twenty years after the Berlin Wall tumbled in a peaceful revolution, world leaders will on Monday meet in a transformed Germany.

Gorbachev ‘proud’ of role in fall of Berlin Wall

Mikhail Gorbachev said on Tuesday that he was proud of his role in the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago.