In cafes across Cape Town, brewing the perfect cup of rooibos has become a fine art.
Leaving Europe for a job in Africa
For decades, many African countries saw some of their most skilful young people take their talents to other parts of the world, lured by the financial prospects outside the continent.
Activists use web to fight back
Students asked to fork out thousands of Kenyan shillings for a bursary; drivers pushed to pay police officers for traffic offences; people asked to shell out large sums to speed up the process of getting a new passport or making a land transfer.
Insight: S. Africa's first black dean
It's graduation day and professor Jonathan Jansen strolls around the campus of the University of the Free State. Every now and then he stops to greet his gown-clad students, standing out amid a crowd of beaming parents and proudly grinning teachers.
Singer spreads African spirit
He is lauded as one of AfricaŹ¼s most unique voices, with a fanbase stretching across the world, but South African singing sensation Vusi Mahlasela remains faithful to his roots.
'Women need hand-up not hand-out'
Caroline Mutoko tells CNN five things she would do to change the lives of African women using her mother as a point of reference.
Ghost towns in world's oldest desert
Vast and inhospitable, the Namib Desert in south west Africa is a land of ghosts. Along a notorious stretch of shoreline known as the Skeleton Coast lie the wrecks of ships stranded in the morning seafogs.
