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South Africa Business News API

Get the live top business headlines from South Africa with our JSON API.

Get API key for the South Africa Business News API

API Demonstration

This example demonstrates the HTTP request to make and the JSON response you will receive when you use the news api to get the top headlines from South Africa.

GET
https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?country=za&category=business&apikey=API_KEY
{
    "totalArticles": 982,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "7c404d2dcb4315e4180719918bb77031",
            "title": "10 tech jobs which are in great demand in South Africa",
            "description": "Demand for technology professionals in South Africa has rebounded in the second half of 2025, with 10 skills emerging as highly in demand.",
            "content": "Demand for technology professionals in South Africa has rebounded in the second half of 2025, with software developers, data analysts, and data engineers in high demand.\nThis was revealed by Pnet’s Job Market Trends Report for November 2025, which sh... [3826 chars]",
            "url": "https://mybroadband.co.za/news/technology/621660-10-tech-jobs-which-are-in-great-demand-in-south-africa.html",
            "image": "https://mybroadband.co.za/news/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Tech-worker-programmer-software-developer-virtual-reality-metaverse-AI-artificial-intelligence-woman.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-04T09:04:14Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "d4f4a944a60e3da5d48ed91191a32ba8",
                "name": "MyBroadband",
                "url": "https://mybroadband.co.za"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "c45182b388141cd4bdfca025fb1d91f5",
            "title": "If you invested R1,000 in Vodacom and MTN in 2015, here is how much money you would have",
            "description": "Here’s what a R1,000 investment in Vodacom and MTN 10 years ago would be worth today if you reinvested the dividend payouts.",
            "content": "If you invested R1,000 in Vodacom and MTN ten years ago and reinvested dividends, MTN would have returned R1,910.11, and Vodacom R1,518.67.\nThe pair are the two largest telecoms companies in Africa, and they dominate South Africa’s mobile market.\nOve... [2364 chars]",
            "url": "https://mybroadband.co.za/news/business-telecoms/621346-if-you-invested-r1000-in-vodacom-and-mtn-in-2015-here-is-how-much-money-you-would-have.html",
            "image": "https://mybroadband.co.za/news/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Vodacom-and-MTN-HQ-signs.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-04T06:59:34Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "d4f4a944a60e3da5d48ed91191a32ba8",
                "name": "MyBroadband",
                "url": "https://mybroadband.co.za"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "ea7da7dab6c41e62dacb962c1a41b4aa",
            "title": "Must-have security tool to defeat burglars in South Africa this holiday",
            "description": "AI is proving useful for two prominent security companies in proactively combatting home burglaries and robberies.",
            "content": "Two prominent South African security companies say that cameras with artificial intelligence-based incident detection have become a must-have for protecting against home burglaries and invasions.\nWhile closed-circuit television (CCTV) has long been u... [4429 chars]",
            "url": "https://mybroadband.co.za/news/security/621461-must-have-security-tool-to-defeat-burglars-in-south-africa-this-holiday.html",
            "image": "https://mybroadband.co.za/news/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Burglar-at-night_robbery.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-04T06:00:43Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "d4f4a944a60e3da5d48ed91191a32ba8",
                "name": "MyBroadband",
                "url": "https://mybroadband.co.za"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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