Real-time sports news from South Africa, structured for developers. NewsMesh filters South Africa-relevant sports coverage into one JSON feed (GET /v1/latest?category=sports&country=za), each story tagged with category, country relevance, and the named people detected in the body.
Paschal Ekeji was 17 years old when a friend in South Africa asked him to play “Madden.” Ekeji, an accomplished rugby player, had never seen American football before.
All Blacks winger Emoni Narawa ends a brave Lions fight as New Zealand remains unbeaten on tour in South Africa.
All Blacks winger Emoni Narawa ends a brave Lions fight as New Zealand remains unbeaten on tour in South Africa.
A dogged Lions side that led for more than an hour was pipped by New Zealand 41-35 at Ellis Park on Tuesday. The All Blacks swept all four provincial teams to remain undefeated...
Four suspects in the killing of former world champion boxer Zolani Tete were arrested, South African police said Monday.
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Four suspects in the killing of former world champion boxer Zolani Tete were arrested, South African police said Monday.
The Springboks failed to deliver when it mattered at Ellis Park. What a disappointment for the thousands who paid thousands to be at Ellis Park. The post South African rugby med...
Colombo, Aug 22: India’s young left-arm spinner Manav Suthar has earned high praise from two of the leading slow bowlers of the current era, with South Africa’s Keshav Maharaj c...
The two sides meet in the second test in Cape Town on Saturday.
Tete held titles at junior bantamweight and bantamweight in his 34-fight pro career
Yankuba Minteh didn't include Mohamed Salah in his top five African Premier League players of all time.
Tete was training to return to the boxing ring after receiving a four-year ban for a steroid.
Former boxing champion Zolani Tete was shot and killed in South Africa, government officials said Friday.,He was 38.,Police said two armed suspects we
Everything you need to know as the Springboks and All Blacks meet in a new series
New Zealand stunned South Africa 33-16 at Ellis Park on Saturday and drew first blood in their historic four-test series. After surviving a ferocious first half to trail only 1...
NewsMesh filters South Africa-relevant sports 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=sports&country=za). The examples below are ready to copy.
curl "https://api.newsmesh.co/v1/latest?apiKey=nm_xxx&category=sports&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 sports 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=sports&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: sports 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.