News in Afrikaans
227 news articles written in Afrikaans, across every country that publishes in it, free to search without an API key.
The busiest publisher in this slice is www.brut.media with 166 articles, 73.1% of the total, followed by www.nggrootbrak.co.za. By country it splits into France (166), South Africa (61). Daily volume averages about 3 articles over the last 8 days, peaking at 14 on 2026-08-29. This is a small slice — 227 articles against 21,690,432 in the whole index. Expect gaps: a quiet day here may mean nothing was published, or simply that nothing was captured. Widen it by dropping to a broader filter, or combine several related slices in one query with a comma-separated list.
Fetch it
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?lang=af&date=today&sort=date&size=20"No API key, no signup, no quota. The response carries the headline, description,
publisher, publication time and the original URL for every article, and the full body text
if you ask for it with full_text=true.
Count it
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/stats?lang=af&top=20"Returns exactly the breakdown shown on this page: which publishers, which languages, and how the volume splits across the last 90 days. About 200 tokens, which makes it the cheapest way for an agent to decide whether this slice is worth reading.
Latest from this slice
The newest articles matching this filter at the time this page was generated. Headlines link to the publisher — we index and search, we do not host.
| Published | Headline | Publisher |
|---|---|---|
2026-09-05T22:38 | Aan Tafel! Ds. Charné Viljoen. Lukas 22. Sondag 6 September 2026 09:00 | www.nggrootbrak.co.za |
2026-09-05T22:28 | Stof tot nadenke: “Dankie vir elke Dag!” | www.nggrootbrak.co.za |
2026-09-05T21:27 | Nuusflitse Week 37+ van 2026 | www.nggrootbrak.co.za |
2026-09-05T21:10 | Afkondigings 6 - 13 September 2026 | www.nggrootbrak.co.za |
2026-09-04T22:51 | Splitsekondes met God. Bybel dagstukkie vir vandag: 5 September 2026 - Dink voor jy praat | www.nggrootbrak.co.za |
2026-09-03T22:49 | Splitsekondes met God. Bybel dagstukkie vir vandag: 4 September 2026 -Pas jou hart en gedagtes | www.nggrootbrak.co.za |
2026-09-02T22:46 | Splitsekondes met God. Bybel dagstukkie vir vandag: 3 September 2026 – God se tug is liefde | www.nggrootbrak.co.za |
2026-09-01T22:43 | Splitsekondes met God. Bybel dagstukkie vir vandag: 2 September 2026 – Soek wysheid soos ‘n ska | www.nggrootbrak.co.za |
Who publishes it
The 2 most active publishers inside this slice right now. Not a curated list — this is simply who appeared most often.
Countries publishing in Afrikaans
A language is rarely one country. Filter by both when you need a specific national perspective.
Domain zones
Volume by day
How much this slice produces daily. Useful for sizing a job before you run it, and for spotting whether a spike is real or an artefact of one publisher.
| Day | Articles | |
|---|---|---|
2026-09-05 | 4 | |
2026-09-04 | 1 | |
2026-09-03 | 1 | |
2026-09-02 | 1 | |
2026-09-01 | 4 | |
2026-08-31 | 1 | |
2026-08-30 | 1 | |
2026-08-29 | 14 | |
2026-08-28 | 2 | |
2026-08-27 | 2 | |
2026-08-26 | 6 | |
2026-08-25 | 2 | |
2026-08-24 | 2 | |
2026-08-23 | 4 |
Combine with other filters
# Afrikaans, published today, full article bodies
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?lang=af&date=today&full_text=true&size=10"
# Afrikaans, search phrase, ranked by relevance
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?lang=af&q=economy&sort=relevance&size=20"
# Afrikaans, newly ingested in the last 15 minutes
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?lang=af&sort=crawled&from=now-15m&size=50"