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South Africa offers culinary challenges from crocodile sirloins to fried caterpillars to sheep heads, but also a familiar global menu - anything from hamburgers to sushi to pad thai to spaghetti bolognaise. Check out the menu.

When Zimbabwe's economy tanked in 2002, the people spoke of "the coin problem". Because there was no change, every purchase had to be rounded up to the dollar. With most people living on the breadline, this was a severe hardship. Enter Econet Wireless and its innovative mobile payment system.

Rwandans living in Johannesburg relived the genocide in their country 20 years ago. They told their stories of horror; but the over-riding emotions at the end of the day were those of reconciliation, hope, healing and forgiveness.

Out of the devastation of genocide, Rwanda is building a remarkably strong country. Its economy is surging ahead, and poverty has been cut by about a third.

On 7 May 2014 South Africans will vote in the country's fifth national democratic elections, 20 years after the end of apartheid in 1994. We bring you a brief guide to the 152 parties voters can choose from – the established, the newcomers, and the outliers.

The art of making and enjoying wine has always brought people together, and now this rich form of exchange is being felt on a national level with the Thutukile Skweyiya Western Cape programme, which celebrates a decade of achievement in July 2011.
• Black, female and making great wine

South Africa is set to increase its role in peacekeeping efforts in conflict zones across Africa and beyond, having already secured a number of successes on the continent.