Tebogo Mokwena

Education: Diploma in Journalism, ALISON (2023), Google News Initiative training (2024), Reuters Introduction to Digital Journalism (2024), AWS Introduction to Responsible AI (2025)

Experience: Journalist and photographer, Daily Sun (2015-2019), Subeditor, Capricorn Post (2019), Journalist, Vutivi Business News (2020-2023), Briefly News (2023 to date)

Awards: Exclusive Comments Guru 2023 by Briefly News

Tebogo Mokwena is a senior current affairs writer at Briefly News. With a Diploma in Journalism from ALISON, he has a strong background in digital journalism, having completed training with the Google News Initiative. He began his career as a journalist at Daily Sun, where he worked for four years before becoming a sub-editor and journalist at Capricorn Post. He then joined Vutivi Business News in 2020 before moving to Briefly News in 2023. Email: tebogo.mokwena@briefly.co.za

4574 articles published since 14 Jun 2023

Author's articles

3 corpses stolen at Kuruman mortuary have not been found, South Africans shaken

South Africa

a year ago

Kelly Smith weeps as Joslin Smith's grandmother blasts her in victim impact statements

South Africa

a year ago

SASSA payments for KwaZulu-Natal residents to be delayed, SA worried

South Africa

a year ago

7 killed in 2 accidents in Mpumalanga between bakkie and car

South Africa

a year ago

South Africans worried that 7,627 teenagers fell pregnant in Durban in 2024 and 2025

South Africa

a year ago

Edenburg pastor given stiff sentence for raping minor, South Africans celebrate

South Africa

a year ago

4 killed and 10 hospitalised in the Eastern Cape after violence between locals and foreign nationals

South Africa

a year ago

Members of the South African Police Service were deployed to Addo in the Eastern Cape after four people were killed in clashes with foreign nationals.

EFF president Julius Malema slams proposed BBBEE changes, SA debates

Politics

a year ago

The president of the Economic Freedom Fighters, Julius Malema, rejected the proposed changes to the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment laws.

South Africans react to video of apartment for Afrikaners in the USA

a year ago

A video of Helping Hands International assisting Afrikaners to resettle in the United States went viral, and South Africans were not impressed by the video.

6 family members killed in horrific fire in Ekurhuleni, South Africans shaken

South Africa

a year ago

A shack in an informal settlement caught fire in KwaThema, Ekurhuleni, on the morning of 26 May 2025. Six people were killed and one little girl survived.

Floyd Shivambu accuses Cyril Ramaphosa of misrepresenting South Africa in the USA

Politics

a year ago

The Secretary-General of the MK Party, Floyd Shivambu, criticised President Cyril Ramaphosa for his working bilateral visit to the United States of America.

Former MK Party Mpumalanga convenor Mary Phadi wants Floyd Shivambu out of the party

Politics

a year ago

The MK Party's former convenor Mary Phadi has called on the party's secretary-general Floyd Shivambu to resign and claimed factions in Mpumalanga want him gone.

Mpumalanga man arrested after hijacking bakery van and selling the bread

South Africa

a year ago

The South Africa Police Service arrested a suspect after he and his accomplice allegedly robbed and hijacked a bakery delivery van. South Africans reacted.