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 the Deputy Head of the Current Affairs desk and a 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.

3491 articles published since 14 Jun 2023

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Gayton McKenzie announces he will run the Nelson Mandela race

Politics

a year ago

Sports, Arts, Culture minister Gayton McKenzie gets love from Springbok fans in viral TikTok video

Politics

a year ago

SA reacts to John Hlophe's election to the Judicial Services Commission

Politics

a year ago

Court hears how Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula wanted R10 million and a wig

Politics

a year ago

Thieves steal North West primary school roof, SA stunned

Education

a year ago

SAPS rescues two kidnap victims in Benoni, SA applauds them

South Africa

a year ago

Limpopo man stabs older brother to death and hands himself over to SAPS

South Africa

a year ago

A Limpopo man handed himself over to the police after he fought with his brother and allegedly stabbed him. South Africans were broken by the incident.

City of Johannesburg's Transport MMC Kenny Kunene sparks outrage with alleged R110K groove bill

Politics

a year ago

The City of Johannesburg's MMC for Transport and the deputy president of the Patriotic Alliance Kenny Kunene and Serge Cabonge spent R125,000 at a club.

South Africans slam Julius Malema's Durban July shoes worth R27K

Politics

a year ago

The president of the Economic Freedom Fighters Julius Malema wore a shoe worth over R27,000 to the Durban July event. South Africans called him out.

Child murder suspect allegedly killed by mob justice, South Africans react

South Africa

a year ago

The South African Police Service are investigating a murder case after a Pietermaritzburg community allegedly killed a murder suspect in an act of mob justice.

Analyst says IEC should force MKP to produce rigging evidence

Politics

a year ago

A political analyst encouraged the Independent Electoral Commission to force the MK Party to produce evidence that 2024 general election votes were rigged.

25-year-old released on bail for raping old woman arrested for another rape

South Africa

a year ago

A man from Mpumalanga was arrested again for raping a gogo, after he was initially released for raping and killing another elderly woman. SA was angry.

Gift of the Givers assists close to 15,000 Western Cape flood victims

South Africa

a year ago

The humanitarian group Gift of the Givers is assisting about 15,000 victims of the floods in Khayelitsha in the Western Cape after thousands were left homeless.

SAPS prevent possible murder after seizing firearms and ammunition in KZN

South Africa

a year ago

The South African Police Service arrested seven men in Ekombe in KwaZulu-Natal after they were found in possession of unlicensed firearms and ammunition.

Rand strengthens against the US Dollar, South Africans have questions

Money

a year ago

The South African currency was strengthened in comparison to the dollar and experts believed that slow job growth in the US is one of the reasons.

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