Nerissa Naidoo

Education: Diploma in Mechanical Draughting, Damelin (2019-2021), TEFL and TESOL certificate, TEFL Universal (2023)

Experience: Journalist, Briefly News (2024-present) Writer & Editor, Entail.ai (2023-24) Ghostwriter, TUW Dibbly (2021-24) Writer, Featherpen.org (2021-25) Copy Editor, National Today (2023-25) Social Media Manager, Naleli Home Decor (2019-22)

Nerissa Naidoo is a writer and editor with seven years of experience. Currently, she is a human interest writer at Briefly News and joined the publication in 2024. She began her career contributing to Morning Lazziness and later joined Featherpen.org. As a TUW ghostwriter, she focused on non-fiction, while her editorial roles at National Today and Entail.ai honed her skills in content accuracy and expert-driven editing. You can reach her at nerissa.naidoo@briefly.co.za

2142 articles published since 02 Dec 2024

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"Praying": Rescue efforts to recover missing 21-year-old from a crocodile-infested river continues

Family and Relationships

20 hours ago

"Don't overthink": Kuruman woman leaves retail job to become a farmer with 133 cattle and 147 goats

Women Empowerment

21 hours ago

"Remembered forever": Hoërskool Florida mourns death of a learner in heartbreaking tribute

Family and Relationships

22 hours ago

"Placed deliberately": Limpopo family demands investigation after finding python on a family grave

Family and Relationships

a day ago

"Cheaper equipment causes this": Pretoria house on fire with suspected solar installation to blame

People

a day ago

"It was so hard": Jason Vanporppal surprises Jerome with a car after epic skate across Africa

Family and Relationships

a day ago

"I must have bunked": Johannesburg man shares hilarious clip on how God chose to make South Africans

People

a day ago

A Johannesburg TikToker used a jug of water to show how he thinks God designed South Africans, and the dancing ability part had everyone losing it.

"No one learned anything": Drag race goes wrong as car ploughs into spectators in Phalaborwa

People

a day ago

A drag race on a public road in Phalaborwa, Limpopo, ended in tragedy after a vehicle lost control and crashed into spectators, leaving 6 critically injured.

"Regional centre for energy": New US deal set to turn around Lesotho's dependence on SA electricity

People

a day ago

Lesotho has signed a $6.2 billion deal with a US energy company to build a massive hydropower plant that could end its reliance on South Africa for electricity.

"When Cape Town shows off": Surreal Cape Town sunset captured in video over Table Mountain

People

a day ago

A Cape Town travel photographer captured a stunning sunset over Table Mountain with a vivid rainbow in a clear sky, and South Africans can't get enough of it.

"He was a good person": Two South African men die in the US just months apart

Family and Relationships

2 days ago

Two young South African men working in the United States have died just months apart, leaving families and communities across South Africa heartbroken.

"She kept me going": Western Cape family wiped out in car crash after grandfather's heart attack

Family and Relationships

2 days ago

A Western Cape family is mourning after a crash on Winery Road killed a toddler and her grandparents, with the little girl's funeral falling on her second birthday.

"Sipurite": SA gent teaches his Chinese girlfriend how to order a burger in english

Family and Relationships

3 days ago

An SA man in China took his Chinese girlfriend to Burger King and tried to teach her to pronounce the menu in English, and the clip has gone viral globally.

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"It's pap and vleis": Gent shares SA's secret method for body building that has Mzansi proud

People

3 days ago

South African bodybuilder Caleb Kotze hit back at steroid accusations by saying his physique comes from a lifetime of eating pap and vleis, and SA is backing him.

Boipatong woman sentenced for life after orchestrating husband's murder for insurance payouts

Family and Relationships

3 days ago

Ntabiseng Tlali and her friend Lineo Ralitsa have been sentenced to life imprisonment after arranging the murder of Tlali's husband, which was financially motivated.

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