The 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall has been celebrated as a milestone in the advance of human freedom.
But not everyone was happy when the Berlin Wall fell.
Sunday Times editor Mondli Makanya recalls: "It was with horror that I and my friends watched those scenes of Germans dancing on top of the wall and merrily chipping away at it."
It is a great irony that oppressed people in South Africa were so blinded by the ANC's alliance with the Soviet Bloc that they could not see the reality of communist oppression.
In truth, the Soviet Union was more brutal than apartheid South Africa. About 20 million people were murdered or starved to death in the USSR, and millions more died from the export of communism overseas.
Nelson Mandela read the autobiography of Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky, and when they met he told Sharansky that his experience in Soviet prisons was worse than that on Robben Island.