South Africa is the most developed media market in sub-Saharan Africa, with strong investigative outlets and a deep business press. The NewsMesh South Africa feed covers Cabinet politics out of Pretoria, parliamentary committee work in Cape Town, JSE Top-40 earnings and SARB rate decisions, the energy crisis (Eskom, NERSA, IPP procurement), Premier Soccer League and Springboks rugby coverage, and the country’s powerful investigative journalism on state capture and SOE governance. Stories are tagged with category, South Africa country relevance, and the named officials and executives detected in the body.
The long nightmare might be over for South African producers, whose industry has been crippled for more than two years by the paralysis of a rebate program that for all intents ...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa's suspended deputy head of the police, Shadrack Sibiya, resigned from his position on Monday amid allegations of corruption and alleged sexual o...
Points expert Jason Stauffer explains how to use points and miles to fly from New York City to South Africa.
Stillbirth affects families everywhere, but the burden is not shared equally: Of the nearly 2 million babies stillborn each year, almost half occur in sub-Saharan Africa New inv...
Australia's batters need to pile on runs and do it quickly as the opening Test against South Africa approaches a dramatic end. Follow live.
After taking a 106-run first-innings lead, Australia will push for victory on day four of the first Test in Durban. Follow the action here.
After taking a 106-run first-innings lead, Australia will push for victory on day four of the first Test in Durban. Follow the action here.
Boxer Retail Ltd. appointed a new chief executive officer as the incumbent is set to retire, with the South African budget grocer reporting higher first-half profit after it kep...
Dalaroo Metals has logged a 34m altered and veined zone 1.25km from its recent high-grade gold discovery in Africa. The geology appears similar, with assays pending.
Dalaroo Metals has logged a 34m altered and veined zone 1.25km from its recent high-grade gold discovery in Africa. The geology appears similar, with assays pending.
Smith sets Test catching record; bad light halts play with visitors 139 ahead Durban, Oct 11: Australia strengthened their hold on the first Test against South Africa as the hos...
Even Nathan Lyon was expecting more of a turnout for the No.1 and 2 Test teams in the world. So does nobody care about Test cricket here in Durban? The answer isn’t simple.
Even Nathan Lyon was expecting more of a turnout for the No.1 and 2 Test teams in the world. So does nobody care about Test cricket here in Durban? The answer isn’t simple.
Australia outguns South Africa in the crucial moments, in particular Steve Smith's incredible catches, but time may prove its toughest opponent in Durban.
Steve Smith takes three brilliant catches in Australia's first Test against South Africa.
NewsMesh aggregates South Africa-relevant coverage across every major beat, from politics and business to technology and sport, normalised into one structured feed.
Authenticate with your apiKey and call one endpoint (GET api.newsmesh.co/v1/latest?country=za). The examples below are ready to copy.
curl "https://api.newsmesh.co/v1/latest?apiKey=nm_xxx&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 aggregates South Africa-relevant reporting from national wires, broadcasters, and major papers, normalised into one structured feed with consistent fields across every source.
Call GET /v1/latest?country=za. Add &category= to narrow to a single beat, &from= and &to= for a date range, or use /v1/search?q= for keyword queries.
Yes. Append &category=politics (or business, sports, technology, health, and more) to /v1/latest?country=za, or browse the South Africa category pages linked above.
Yes. NewsMesh is a real-time news API: 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.