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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

5853 articles published since 04 May 2022

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Snake attacking while standing on tail goes TikTok viral, video of Australian man confronting serpent has peeps terrified

Snake attacking while standing on tail goes TikTok viral, video of Australian man confronting serpent has peeps terrified

Asia

3 years ago

Bacardi dance by Pretoria girl at Christian Brothers' Catholic school sets hall on fire, lit dance of SA moves including vosho and more go TikTok viral

Bacardi dance by Pretoria girl at Christian Brothers' Catholic school sets hall on fire, lit dance of SA moves including vosho and more go TikTok viral

Family and Relationships

3 years ago

Curro school Grade 2 girl speaking Setswana goes TikTok viral, Mzansi convinced she has 'private school' accent

Curro school Grade 2 girl speaking Setswana goes TikTok viral, Mzansi convinced she has 'private school' accent

Education

3 years ago

SA stans dude's explosive Michael Jackson moonwalk while dancing to amapiano, goes TikTok viral with 2.5M views moves

SA stans dude's explosive Michael Jackson moonwalk while dancing to amapiano, goes TikTok viral with 2.5M views moves

Family and Relationships

3 years ago

Trevor Noah painting by Mzansi artist on TikTok gets 1M views, self-taught man's 2 meters tall 2-in-1 painting impresses peeps

Trevor Noah painting by Mzansi artist on TikTok gets 1M views, self-taught man's 2 meters tall 2-in-1 painting impresses peeps

Family and Relationships

3 years ago

TikTok of fiancé picking his girl's Valentine's Day outfit goes viral, Mzansi labels them couple goals over cute video

TikTok of fiancé picking his girl's Valentine's Day outfit goes viral, Mzansi labels them couple goals over cute video

Family and Relationships

3 years ago

'Naked sneakers' have Mzansi in tears, 3 Twitter pics of realistic foot shoes go viral

'Naked sneakers' have Mzansi in tears, 3 Twitter pics of realistic foot shoes go viral

Family and Relationships

3 years ago

A man on Twitter shared a post selling sneakers that look like real feet. South Africans on Twitter were thoroughly amused by the man's unique shoe design.

Gauteng widow stranded in unknown place with kids grateful after 2 men helped with car trouble, SA moved by good samaritans

Gauteng widow stranded in unknown place with kids grateful after 2 men helped with car trouble, SA moved by good samaritans

Family and Relationships

3 years ago

A woman posted a story on Facebook about how Good Samaritans helped her. The lady is a widow and said she was touched by the two men who ensured she was safe.

Pretoria school romance: Mzansi moved as boy surprises bae by kneeling in rain with Valentine's Day gifts

Pretoria school romance: Mzansi moved as boy surprises bae by kneeling in rain with Valentine's Day gifts

Family and Relationships

3 years ago

A girl who goes to school in Pretoria shared a TikTok of how her boyfriend surprised her on Valentine's. The video went viral because he did the most for her.

Man raised African lion since it was cub shares viral TikToks about love for wild beast, internet amazed

Man raised African lion since it was cub shares viral TikToks about love for wild beast, internet amazed

Family and Relationships

3 years ago

One man on TikTok raised a lion to become a large beast he said was his best friend. The viral video had people fascinated by their friendly relationship.

Zulu man hypes up his bull and goes Twitter viral, Mzansi in stitches as he sings praise poems to livestock

Zulu man hypes up his bull and goes Twitter viral, Mzansi in stitches as he sings praise poems to livestock

Family and Relationships

3 years ago

One man went Twitter viral as he paid attention to his big bull. Online users were in stitches over how the gent was thoroughly impressed with the livestock.

Woman's African dad spoonfeeding her son gets 15M TikTok views, viral video warms netizens' hearts

Woman's African dad spoonfeeding her son gets 15M TikTok views, viral video warms netizens' hearts

Family and Relationships

3 years ago

A woman showed people how her dad dotes over his grandchildren. People were in stitches as he fed his grandchild who was supposedly too full to eat some more.

Mlungu attempts to create amapiano dance trend on TikTok, Mzansi in tears and tells him to try again

Mlungu attempts to create amapiano dance trend on TikTok, Mzansi in tears and tells him to try again

Family and Relationships

3 years ago

A South African white TikTok creator tried to dance to an amapiano beat. Mzansi peeps had jokes as they rated the man's attempt at dancing in the viral video.

TikTok prank of man pretending to hand over pet snake to strangers goes TikTok viral with 1.6M views

TikTok prank of man pretending to hand over pet snake to strangers goes TikTok viral with 1.6M views

Family and Relationships

3 years ago

A TikTok creator took to the streets while holding his snake. The man went viral and showed people's reactions to him offering them to touch his pet snake.

Mzansi bachelor has lit Valentine's Day after getting new Merc delivered, SA applauds as 2 Twitter pics of car go viral

Mzansi bachelor has lit Valentine's Day after getting new Merc delivered, SA applauds as 2 Twitter pics of car go viral

Cars and Tech

3 years ago

A man on TikTok showed people that he received his Mercedes-Benz on Valentine's Day. Online users congratulated the man as his celebratory Tweet went viral.

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