FROM THE ARCHIVES | Change was imminent and the inevitable happened in February 1990, when then president FW de Klerk succumbed to the tide and set South Africa on an inevitable path to democracy. FWDeKlerk
In a city 13 500km away from us, masses of people surged towards both sides of the Berlin Wall, climbing on top of it and chipping at the edifice with hammers, axes and other rudimentary tools.
Those who had been on the western side of the Cold War celebrated the moment with great exuberance, with some declaring victory over communism. By the early 1990s, the dream that had begun to edge towards fruition with the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia was virtually dead. “The last half of 1989 saw the dramatic collapse of most of the communist party governments of eastern Europe. Their downfall was brought about through massive upsurges, which had the support not only of the majority of the working class, but also a large slice of the membership of the ruling parties themselves. These were popular revolts against unpopular regimes; if socialists are unable to come to terms with this reality, the future of socialism is indeed bleak,” Slovo wrote.
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