Ek gaan die kinders ná skool haal, en daarna koop ons brood.

In this sentence, gaan is functioning like a future/intention marker, much like English am going to.

So:

• Ek gaan ... haal = I am going to fetch/pick up ...

It can still literally mean go, but in a structure like gaan + another verb, it often means be going to do something.

Here, Ek gaan die kinders ná skool haal is not mainly about physically going somewhere; it is about a planned action.

Because Afrikaans often puts the second verb at the end when the clause contains a finite verb plus another verb.

Here:

• Ek = subject
• gaan = finite verb
• die kinders = object
• ná skool = time phrase
• haal = main verb in infinitive form

So the pattern is:

• Ek gaan die kinders ná skool haal

This is very common in Afrikaans with verbs like:

• gaan
• kan
• moet
• wil
• sal

Compare:

• Ek wil brood koop.
• Ons kan later gaan.
• Hy moet huis toe kom.

Here haal means fetch, collect, or pick up.

So die kinders ... haal means:

• pick up the children
• fetch the children

In other contexts, haal can also have other meanings, such as get or obtain, depending on the sentence. But in this sentence, pick up/fetch is the natural meaning.

Yes. In Afrikaans, die is the definite article for both singular and plural.

So:

• die kind = the child
• die kinders = the children

Afrikaans does not change the word for the based on number the way some languages do.

The singular is:

• kind = child

The plural is:

• kinders = children

Many Afrikaans nouns form the plural with -s or -e, but not all nouns follow exactly the same pattern.
With kind, the plural is kinders.

This is a useful word to memorize as a whole form.

ná skool means after school.

This works much like English, where we often say:

• after school
• not necessarily after the school

So Afrikaans can also omit the article in this kind of time expression.

Here:

• ná = after
• skool = school

Together, ná skool functions as a time phrase.

The accent in ná helps show stress and can also help make the meaning clearer.

In this sentence, ná skool clearly means:

• after school

You may sometimes see na without an accent in other contexts, but ná is often written this way when the writer wants to make the after meaning especially clear or stressed.

So for a learner, it is safest to understand:

• ná skool = after school

Yes, daarna is one word, and it means:

• after that
• afterwards
• then

It refers back to the previous action:

1. first, picking up the children
2. daarna, buying bread

So it links the two actions in sequence.

Because Afrikaans is a verb-second language in main clauses.

That means the finite verb normally comes in the second position.

If the sentence starts with daarna, then the verb must come next:

• Daarna koop ons brood.

Structure:

• Daarna = first element
• koop = finite verb in second position
• ons = subject
• brood = object

You could also say:

• Ons koop daarna brood

but Daarna koop ons brood is a very natural way to emphasize the sequence: after that, we buy bread.

Afrikaans often uses the present tense for future actions when the context already makes the time clear.

So:

• daarna koop ons brood

can naturally mean:

• after that, we buy bread
• or more naturally in English, after that, we’ll buy bread

Because the whole sentence is already about a plan or sequence of actions, Afrikaans does not need another future marker here.

So both ideas are possible in Afrikaans:

• Daarna koop ons brood.
• Daarna gaan ons brood koop.

The version in your sentence is shorter and very natural.

Because en is a coordinating conjunction meaning and. It joins two main clauses.

After en, the next clause still follows normal main-clause rules. Since that clause starts with daarna, the verb comes second:

• ..., en daarna koop ons brood.

This is different from some subordinating conjunctions, which push the verb further back.

So here:

• en simply joins the clauses
• it does not force subordinate-clause word order

Because brood here is being used in a general or uncountable sense, much like English bread.

So:

• koop ons brood = we buy bread

This does not necessarily mean one specific loaf. It just means bread as an item to buy.

If needed, Afrikaans could be more specific, for example:

• ’n brood = a loaf of bread
• die brood = the bread

But in your sentence, plain brood is perfectly natural.

A native speaker would hear it as a normal statement about a plan:

• Ek gaan die kinders ná skool haal, en daarna koop ons brood.

In very natural English, that is something like:

• I’m going to pick up the children after school, and then we’ll buy bread.

A few important things make it sound natural in Afrikaans:

• gaan ... haal for a planned action
• ná skool as a time expression
• daarna to show sequence
• normal verb-second order in daarna koop ons brood

So it is a very typical everyday Afrikaans sentence.