News in Afrikaans
264 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.nggrootbrak.co.za with 248 articles, 93.9% of the total, followed by www.brut.media, edubourse.com. By country it splits into South Africa (248), France (16). Daily volume averages about 3 articles over the last 8 days, peaking at 12 on 2026-10-17. This is a small slice — 264 articles against 41,693,908 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 |
|---|---|---|
2026-10-21T22:52 | Splitsekondes met God. Bybel dagstukkie vir vandag: 22 Oktober 2026 – God is by jou | www.nggrootbrak.co.za |
2026-10-20T22:50 | Splitsekondes met God. Bybel dagstukkie vir vandag: 21 Oktober 2026 – Moenie bang wees nie | www.nggrootbrak.co.za |
2026-10-19T22:18 | Splitsekondes met God. Bybel dagstukkie vir vandag: 20 Oktober 2026 – God se lig lei jou | www.nggrootbrak.co.za |
2026-10-18T22:16 | Splitsekondes met God. Bybel dagstukkie vir vandag: 19 Oktober 2026 - God is lief vir jou | www.nggrootbrak.co.za |
2026-10-17T22:50 | Gaan uit! Ds. Charné Viljoen. Matteus 28. Sondag 18 Oktober 2026 09:00 | www.nggrootbrak.co.za |
2026-10-17T22:50 | Gaan uit! Ds. Charné Viljoen. Matteus 28. Sondag 18 Oktober 2026 09:00 | www.nggrootbrak.co.za |
2026-10-17T22:14 | Splitsekondes met God. Bybel dagstukkie vir vandag: 18 Oktober 2026 - God genees en help | www.nggrootbrak.co.za |
2026-10-17T22:14 | Splitsekondes met God. Bybel dagstukkie vir vandag: 18 Oktober 2026 – God genees en help | www.nggrootbrak.co.za |
Who publishes it
The 3 most active publishers inside this slice right now. Not a curated list — this is simply who appeared most often.
| Publisher | Articles | Share | API |
|---|---|---|---|
www.nggrootbrak.co.za | 248 | 93.9% | query |
www.brut.media | 9 | 3.4% | query |
edubourse.com | 7 | 2.7% | query |
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 | |
|---|---|---|
2026-10-21 | 1 | |
2026-10-20 | 1 | |
2026-10-19 | 1 | |
2026-10-18 | 1 | |
2026-10-17 | 12 | |
2026-10-16 | 2 | |
2026-10-15 | 2 | |
2026-10-14 | 2 | |
2026-10-13 | 2 | |
2026-10-12 | 2 | |
2026-10-11 | 2 | |
2026-10-10 | 18 | |
2026-10-09 | 3 | |
2026-10-08 | 2 |
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"