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All South Africans love it - including Nobel peace prize-winning Desmond Tutu - and its rich, smoky smell floats over the country every Sunday. Celebrate the braai with our great recipe for boerewors, traditional South African farmer's sausage.
• SA fired up for National Braai Day

South Africa’s post-apartheid transformation and new middle class are fuelling demand for affordable homes. For private equity fund International Housing Solutions, that means opportunity.
• New technologies for social housing

The forgiving philosophy of "ubuntu" helps explain how South Africa managed to transcend its turbulent apartheid past and create a unified democracy, writes Simon Barber.
• My normal, crazy, mixed-up country

South Africa, which builds BMWs and Mercedes Benzes for the US market, is in the thick of the race to deliver a truly practical – and stylish – electric car. Meet the Joule.
• SA market hungry for the Joule

It will probe the edges of our universe. It will be a virtual time machine, helping scientists explore the origins of galaxies. It's the Square Kilometre Array, and South Africans are at the heart of its development.
• African eyes on the universe

"La vita", it would appear, is pretty "bella" right now for South African television journalist and media personality Debora Patta.

Mark Cutifani, CEO of mining multinational AngloGold Ashanti, examines why South Africa's past is key to successfully doing business here in the future - and why the country's "culture of constructive internal engagement", developed over the past two decades, is likely to continue to bear fruit.

Since 1990, South Africa has been a noisy place. After decades of apartheid censorship, the lifting of restrictions on the media led to a cacophony of debate. For the first time in centuries, everyone could be heard, and it was sometimes deafening, writes Anton Harber.
• Tutu speaks out for press freedom

Mark Cutifani, CEO of the multinational AngloGold Ashanti mining company, examines why South Africa’s past is key to successfully doing business here in the future.
• SA's junior mining sector vibrant

Kgalema Motlanthe, South Africa's deputy president, looks at how African economies' resilient performance during the global financial crisis points to the continent's new place in a changing world.
• Development goals on track