Real-time politics news from South Africa, structured for developers. NewsMesh filters South Africa-relevant politics coverage into one JSON feed (GET /v1/latest?category=politics&country=za), each story tagged with category, country relevance, and the named people detected in the body.
Hunter Biden said he had his Secret Service protection pulled after right-wing influencer Laura Loomer shared a picture online of him with his family in South Africa. On July 7,...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa has deported or repatriated more than 53,000 African immigrants in the space of a month in a crackdown by authorities that has coincided with a ...
Africa’s biggest economy has been on a knife edge for months over growing anti-migrant sentiment and xenophobic violence.
Vusimusi "Cat" Matlala could have given evidence against senior police officials in a $22m graft case.
Evan Vucci/Reuters The Trump administration chartered an almost empty flight to take white refugees from South Africa to the U.S. The taxpayer footed the bill, even though the g...
Weeks into his second term, President Donald Trump announced that nearly all refugees admitted to the United States would be White South Africans, radically reshaping a decades-...
South Africa is cracking down on undocumented migrants following widespread anti-immigration protests.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi sends congratulations to Chinmaya Mission South Africa for Durban's historic, record-breaking Hanuman Chalisa event.
The assumption that poor societies cannot afford the luxury of liberal institutions is both false and potentially fatal.
The decision is part of a crackdown on allegedly wasteful spending just months before local government elections.
A photograph linking a senior South African diplomat with former president Jacob Zuma and controversial businessman Ajay Gupta has sparked political scrutiny. International Rela...
Ghana on Tuesday said a visit between President John Mahama and counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa had been postponed amid anti-immigrant violence in South Africa. Accra and Pretoria h...
Many in Ghana feared his presence would lead to mass protests, and officials say it is postponed for now.
Africa’s richest city one of dozens of municipalities to be hit over alleged legal breaches
The demonstrations held in several cities were called to demand that all undocumented foreigners leave the country.
Xenophobic violence has swept through South Africa as the country continues to struggle with poverty and deep inequality. Experts tell Alex Croft that the latest demonstrations ...
The exodus began weeks ago as fringe groups began demanding all illegal migrants leave by June 30, in a campaign that saw violent protests and clashes in which at least four for...
Former President Zuma's trip to India reignites anger over a decade-old corruption scandal.
NewsMesh filters South Africa-relevant politics coverage into one structured feed, ready to query by the same parameters as the rest of the API.
Authenticate with your apiKey and call one endpoint (GET api.newsmesh.co/v1/latest?category=politics&country=za). The examples below are ready to copy.
curl "https://api.newsmesh.co/v1/latest?apiKey=nm_xxx&category=politics&country=za&limit=20"GET /v1/latest: Most-recent articles, filterable by category, country, and date range.GET /v1/search: Full-text search across the archive with boolean operators and source filters.GET /v1/trending: Cached trending headlines, the fastest endpoint for homepage feeds.GET /v1/article/{id}: Fetch a single article and its full metadata by ID.NewsMesh filters South Africa-relevant politics coverage into one structured feed, each story tagged with its category, the countries it's relevant to, and the named people detected in the body.
Call GET /v1/latest?category=politics&country=za. Use /v1/search to add keyword queries on top of the same filters.
Yes. Swap the category parameter (business, sports, technology, health, and more) or drop it entirely to get all South Africa coverage from /v1/latest?country=za.
Yes. NewsMesh is a real-time news API: politics South Africa stories are served through the live /v1/latest and /v1/trending endpoints alongside a searchable archive, each tagged with its category, the countries it's relevant to, and the named people detected in the body, so you can build a live feed without scraping HTML.
Create a NewsMesh account, generate an API key, and call the endpoint above with your apiKey parameter. See the pricing page for current plans and rate limits.
Access the full dataset programmatically with the NewsMesh API.