About Mzansi News
Independent · Based in the Western Cape, South Africa
Mzansi News is an independent headline service built for South Africans who want one clean, fast page that answers a simple question: what is happening right now, at home and in the world?
We are not a newspaper and we do not pretend to be one. South Africa already has excellent journalists. What is harder to find is a single place that brings their work together — without clutter, pop-ups, autoplay videos, or the need to hop between six different apps. That is the gap Mzansi News fills.
How it works
Mzansi News automatically gathers the latest headlines from the public feeds that established news organisations publish for exactly this purpose. Our site checks those feeds continuously, sorts everything by time so the newest stories always appear first, and refreshes itself every few minutes while you have the page open.
Three principles guide how we present that content:
- Attribution, always. Every story is clearly labelled with the name of the newsroom that reported it.
- Traffic goes to the source. Clicking any headline takes you directly to the original article on the publisher's own website. We show only the headline and the short public summary the publisher chooses to share in its feed — never the full article.
- No editorial thumb on the scale. Stories are ordered by recency, not by our opinions. We do not rewrite headlines and we do not hide stories we disagree with.
Our sources
South African coverage comes from News24, IOL, SABC News, The Citizen and Daily Maverick. International coverage comes from BBC News, Al Jazeera and The Guardian, with business news from Moneyweb, sport from BBC Sport and The Citizen, and technology from BBC and The Verge. Sources may change over time as feeds come and go; the current list always appears in the footer of the homepage.
Why "Mzansi"?
Mzansi — from the isiXhosa uMzantsi, meaning "south" — is the affectionate everyday name South Africans use for their own country. It felt right for a site whose whole job is to keep Mzansi informed, from load-shedding schedules to Springbok team announcements to what the rest of the world woke up to this morning.
Independence and funding
Mzansi News is independently run and is not owned by, affiliated with, or endorsed by any of the news organisations whose headlines appear here. The site may display advertising to cover its running costs. Advertising never influences which stories appear or the order they appear in — that is decided purely by publication time.
Corrections and takedowns
Because headlines come directly from publishers' own feeds, an error in a headline is usually the publisher's to correct, and our copy updates automatically when they do. If you are a publisher and would prefer your feed not to be featured on Mzansi News, contact us and we will remove it promptly.