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Jim Mohlala

Education: Masters Candidate (Media and Communications), Postgraduate Diploma in Media Leadership and Innovation (2025), Advanced Diploma in Journalism (2024), Diploma in Journalism (2020-2023)

Experience: Human Interest Writer at Briefly News (2026-present), Social justice reporter at Daily Maverick (2023-2024), Freelance Journalist at Sunday Times/TimesLIVE (2024-2025), Assistant to Office of FID Dean, CPUT (2025)

Awards: Deans Special Award (CPUT) - Excellent Editorial Leadership

Jim Mohlala is a Human Interest writer for Briefly News (joined in 2025). Mohlala holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Media Leadership and Innovation and an Advanced Diploma in Journalism from the Cape Peninsula University of Technology. He started his career working at the Daily Maverick and has written for the Sunday Times and TimesLIVE. Jim has several years of experience covering social justice, crime and community stories. You can reach him at jim.mohlala@briefly.co.za

300 articles published since 31 Dec 2025

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"The difference is insane": Mzansi reacts to The City Makoti finally getting her teeth whitened

"The difference is insane": Mzansi reacts to The City Makoti finally getting her teeth whitened

People

2 days ago

“They were warned”: Mzansi reacts with zero sympathy as KZN houses are flattened by Eskom

“They were warned”: Mzansi reacts with zero sympathy as KZN houses are flattened by Eskom

People

3 days ago

"He's always eating": Mzansi reacts as popular local streamer fumbles burger eating contest

"He's always eating": Mzansi reacts as popular local streamer fumbles burger eating contest

People

3 days ago

Slow at work, fast on dancing": Mzansi reacts to Shoprite staff having a viral Bacardi dance off

Slow at work, fast on dancing": Mzansi reacts to Shoprite staff having a viral Bacardi dance off

People

3 days ago

"Once a beautiful city": Throwback photo of 1950s Port Elizabeth leaves Mzansi in their feelings

"Once a beautiful city": Throwback photo of 1950s Port Elizabeth leaves Mzansi in their feelings

South Africa

4 days ago

"A giant leap": Cape Town medics use freezing technology to destroy recurrent thyroid cancer

"A giant leap": Cape Town medics use freezing technology to destroy recurrent thyroid cancer

South Africa

4 days ago

"South Africans are wonderful": Mzansi touched as N3 crash survivor shares how strangers showed up

"South Africans are wonderful": Mzansi touched as N3 crash survivor shares how strangers showed up

People

4 days ago

A Durban woman and her friend survived a crash on the N3 Freeway and were stranded for over three hours before strangers on the road changed everything for them

"He even started tiling": Ghanaian man sends money to build a house back home, returns to nightmare

"He even started tiling": Ghanaian man sends money to build a house back home, returns to nightmare

Africa

5 days ago

A Ghanaian man who worked in Dubai for seven years sent money home to build a house only to return and find an incomplete structure built with inferior materials

"This makes me so happy:" Domestic worker gets new smile after running buddy arranges dental gift

"This makes me so happy:" Domestic worker gets new smile after running buddy arranges dental gift

Family and Relationships

5 days ago

A domestic worker received a life-changing dental makeover, and her running friend shared her incredible before-and-after transformation with South Africans online

"The Mzansi we pray for": Cape Town man gets tourists and locals singing together at the Waterfront

"The Mzansi we pray for": Cape Town man gets tourists and locals singing together at the Waterfront

People

5 days ago

Mannenberg singer Vernon White brought Cape Town to a standstill at the V&A Waterfront when his gospel performance drew a multiracial crowd that sang every word

Doctor adopts five-year-old boy after heart surgery, secures homes for all his siblings

Doctor adopts five-year-old boy after heart surgery, secures homes for all his siblings

US

5 days ago

A Nebraska anaesthesiologist found a five-year-old boy alone before major heart surgery and made a decision that led to all six siblings finding loving homes

"It wasn't intentional": Mzansi man's R3 bank balance had woman asking questions

"It wasn't intentional": Mzansi man's R3 bank balance had woman asking questions

People

5 days ago

A South African woman went viral after seeing a man’s Standard Bank account sitting at R3 and she refused to let it go without a full explanation from him

"We're represented": Yuji Beleza attempts siSwati, leaves a Swazi man stunned in Istanbul

"We're represented": Yuji Beleza attempts siSwati, leaves a Swazi man stunned in Istanbul

People

5 days ago

Content creator Yuji Beleza met a Swazi man named Sanele in Taksim Istanbul, and attempted to speak siSwati, leaving the Dublin Airport worker genuinely amazed

"Beautiful South Africa": Mzansi wowed by hidden gem on the West Coast where you sleep inside a cave

"Beautiful South Africa": Mzansi wowed by hidden gem on the West Coast where you sleep inside a cave

South Africa

6 days ago

A content creator has put Donkieskraal near Lamberts Bay on the map after visiting a West Coast game reserve where guests sleep in cave chalets carved into mountain

"Which university is this?": Student runs for his life after monkey confrontation on campus

"Which university is this?": Student runs for his life after monkey confrontation on campus

People

6 days ago

A student at a Pretoria university was confronted and chased by a troop of monkeys on campus in March 2025 leaving South Africans in stitches on social media

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