Best News & Entertainment '24

Rutendo Masasi

Education: English (BA and Law, BA (Hons), Rhodes University, (2014-2017), Google News Initiative training (2024), Thomson Reuters Foundation Newsroom AI Adoption Programme (2025)

Experience: Briefly News (2022-present)

Awards: Top story of the year 2023 by Briefly News

Rue Masasi is a Human Interest and Entertainment writer at Briefly News who graduated with a BA (Hons) in English from Rhodes University in 2018. Rue also has 4 years of experience in journalism and over four years of experience as an online ESL teacher. She has also passed a set of training courses by Google News Initiative. You can reach her via email: rutendo.masasi@briefly.co.za

5846 articles published since 04 May 2022

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Throwback TikTok of school girls' head vosho to DJ Clizo banger in 2016 has Mzansi feeling nostalgic

Throwback TikTok of school girls' head vosho to DJ Clizo banger in 2016 has Mzansi feeling nostalgic

Music

3 years ago

Australian TikTokker teaches bae amapiano dance routine, couples' South African moves go TikTok viral

Australian TikTokker teaches bae amapiano dance routine, couples' South African moves go TikTok viral

Family and Relationships

3 years ago

Massive snake slithering into toilet gets 5.8M views, nightmarish video leaves TikTok users terrified

Massive snake slithering into toilet gets 5.8M views, nightmarish video leaves TikTok users terrified

Europe

3 years ago

Future Mzansi pilot shares song he'd play to joke that he can't land, Mzansi in stitches over TikTok

Future Mzansi pilot shares song he'd play to joke that he can't land, Mzansi in stitches over TikTok

Family and Relationships

3 years ago

Mzansi woman leaves baby when monkey comes into kitchen, TikTok of wild moment has SA laughing

Mzansi woman leaves baby when monkey comes into kitchen, TikTok of wild moment has SA laughing

Family and Relationships

3 years ago

Girl dances with another guy in front of bf at Rolling Loud concert, Twitter video of young man's heartbreak goes viral with 5.7M views

Girl dances with another guy in front of bf at Rolling Loud concert, Twitter video of young man's heartbreak goes viral with 5.7M views

Family and Relationships

3 years ago

Black man looks for property in Orania after Eskom resumed loadshedding, Mzansi in stitch over desperation

Black man looks for property in Orania after Eskom resumed loadshedding, Mzansi in stitch over desperation

Family and Relationships

3 years ago

A man made a joke about trying to find a place to live in Orania. People thought it was hilarious as they could relate to his annoyance over loadshedding.

Woman's pronunciation of Northern Sesotho in TikTok clip gets her roasted after she shares bizarre love advice

Woman's pronunciation of Northern Sesotho in TikTok clip gets her roasted after she shares bizarre love advice

Family and Relationships

3 years ago

One woman spoke Northern Sesotho and went viral on TikTok. Mzansi peeps were fascinated by her strange pronunciation as she gave interesting advice about love.

Mzansi woman scolds white toddler in isiXhosa over mess, SA in tears as she orders him to fetch broom

Mzansi woman scolds white toddler in isiXhosa over mess, SA in tears as she orders him to fetch broom

Family and Relationships

3 years ago

One woman scolded a white toddler in isiXhosa after he made a mess. South Africans were in stitches as the little kid followed her instructions perfectly.

2 Mzansi women's amapiano dance battle against their daughters on TikTok goes viral, SA chooses best pair of dancers

2 Mzansi women's amapiano dance battle against their daughters on TikTok goes viral, SA chooses best pair of dancers

Family and Relationships

3 years ago

Two parents decided to hold their own in a TikTok dance battle against their children. Online users were more than happy to pick their favourite dance video.

Eastern Cape schoolboys in dresses and skirts parade for students, TikTok of lit school gathering goes viral

Eastern Cape schoolboys in dresses and skirts parade for students, TikTok of lit school gathering goes viral

Family and Relationships

3 years ago

South African schoolboys went TikTok viral after wearing girls' school uniforms. The video of the Eastern Cape pupils walking into school had many in stitches.

Mzansi man makes Zulu nurse bae lunch and delivers it, TikTok of her breaking into traditional dance when she sees him goes viral

Mzansi man makes Zulu nurse bae lunch and delivers it, TikTok of her breaking into traditional dance when she sees him goes viral

Family and Relationships

3 years ago

One nurse was happy to see her husband at her workplace with her lunch. Mzansi TikTok users were touched to see the husband go the extra mile for his wife.

Tswana wife trolls traditional rules about modesty and exercises in full-length shoeshoe dress to be "better" makoti

Tswana wife trolls traditional rules about modesty and exercises in full-length shoeshoe dress to be "better" makoti

Family and Relationships

3 years ago

A woman on TikTok made fun of the high expectations wives get. The funny lady wore a traditional Tswana dress to work out after getting criticised by people.

White father-in-law gushes over daughter-in-law's beauty in fluent isiZulu after salon visit

White father-in-law gushes over daughter-in-law's beauty in fluent isiZulu after salon visit

Family and Relationships

3 years ago

A TikTokker got complimented by her father-in-law after she came from the salon. Peeps were delighted to see that her white in-law could speak fluent isiZulu.

SA woman's plan to get mother-in-law to move from bae's front car seat backfired, Mzansi mortified as she gets embarrassed

SA woman's plan to get mother-in-law to move from bae's front car seat backfired, Mzansi mortified as she gets embarrassed

Family and Relationships

3 years ago

A woman tried to sit in the front seat where her mother-in-law sat. People thought it was a red flag how the boyfriend and the mother-in-law embarrassed her.

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