The British government said on Thursday it planned to give 16 and 17-year-olds the right to vote in all UK elections in a major overhaul of the country's democratic system.

South Africa’s G20 presidency shouldn’t drop the baton passed by Brazil on this crucial issue that underpins good governance.

There was a strong chance that all four wards being contested in the latest round of by-elections could have changed hands, but in the end only one did.

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Beneath the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital overpass in Soweto, a cluster of homeless people quietly nurse the weight of regret. Once swept up in a haze of criminal actions, they now cling to the ...

Israel launched powerful airstrikes in Damascus on Wednesday, blowing up part of the defence ministry and hitting near the presidential palace as it vowed to destroy government forces attacking Druze ...

South Africa’s vital wetlands are degrading faster than investment in their rehabilitation. As a result, they are facing catastrophic decline. This follows a global trend of wetland decline, a key ...

The pain inflicted on accident victims, the public purse and our economy by a broken RAF is incalculable. Fixing it will take courage and resolve.

A new U.S. assessment has found that U.S. strikes in June mostly destroyed one of three targeted Iranian nuclear sites, but the other two were not as badly damaged, NBC News reported on Thursday, ...

A throat ulcer. Bloody urine. A sick baby. That’s what smokers in other countries see. In South Africa? For now, it’s a tiny black box.

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has ordered the setting up of a new investigation team, involving police and prosecutors, to look into the deadly Halloween crowd crush that killed 159, mostly ...