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The new world walls

The fall of the Berlin Wall symbolised the end of one geopolitical divide. But now the world’s majority are enchained behind other exclusions.

Crushed wall opened the door to SA’s freedom

The fall of the Berlin Wall has come to symbolise the collapse of international communism and the end of the bipolar world.

Down comes another German wall

On November 9 the Goethe-Institut knocked down its boundary wall to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

‘German unity still incomplete’ on Berlin Wall anniversary

The united Germany remains marred by division 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday.

Study shows high cost of German reunification

A new study shows that about €1,3-trillion has been transferred from the west to rebuild the east, a newspaper reported on Saturday.

Walls in the mind are hardest to abolish

Interview with Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to South Africa, Dieter W Haller.

Utopia without walls

If we could all trust and respect one another, we wouldn’t need them, writes Barbara Holtmann.

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.

Beyond the free market

Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, capitalist market fundamentalism crashed as spectacularly as Soviet-style command economies did.