Fall of the Berlin Wall remembered in S. Africa
11 November 2019 |
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Three months after the Berlin Wall came down, Nelson Mandela walked out of prison. On the weekend, guests at Germany's embassy in South Africa looked back on those seismic events of 30 years ago.
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