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.

3492 articles published since 14 Jun 2023

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Rand strengthens against the US Dollar, South Africans have questions

Money

a year ago

11-year-old Soweto boy shoots himself with father's gun, SAPS arrests dad

South Africa

a year ago

2 SAPS officers robbed of guns and car in KwaZulu-Natal

South Africa

a year ago

eThekwini cancels EPWP contracts because it cannot afford it

South Africa

a year ago

Potchefstroom community hands couple over to SAPS for allegedly murdering 4-year-old toddler

South Africa

a year ago

Panyaza Lesufi wants DA deputy speaker to continue in her position

Politics

a year ago

Alleged granny beater to appear before Kuils River Magistrates Court, SA demands he get no bail

South Africa

a year ago

The 19-year-old teenager from the Eastern Cape who allegedly beat his grandmother in a video will appear before the Kuils River Magistrates Court

Economic Freedom Fighters willing to work with ANC-led provincial government

Politics

a year ago

The Economic Freedom Fighters in Gauteng expressed a desire to continue working with the African National Congress in the Gauteng province. SA was suspicious.

Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni blames voters for larger Cabinet

Politics

a year ago

The Minister in the Presidency, Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, blamed the electorate for the size of the new Cabinet, which has 77 members including ministers and deputies.

SAPS rescues family from 2-day kidnapping ordeal in Eastern Cape

South Africa

a year ago

The South African Police Service arrested four suspects in the Eastern Cape after they kidnapped a family of six from Lusikisiki for two days. Netizens were pleased.

DA Gauteng leader Solly Msimanga trash-talks PA, RISE Mzansi MECs

Politics

a year ago

The leader of the Democratic Alliance in Gauteng, solly Msimanga, slammed the appointment of IFP, PA and RISE Mzansi members as MECs in Panyaza Lesufi's cabinet.

DA Gauteng Deputy speaker Ntsheke to resign following failed negotiations

Politics

a year ago

The Democratic Alliance is expected to recall its Deputy Speaker from the Gauteng Provincial Legislature after negotiations with the ANC broke down.

Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi has faith in the Gauteng government

Politics

a year ago

The Premier of Gauteng Panyaza Lesufi expressed his confidence in his new cabinet which he announced after two delays. Residents of Gauteng did not.

Missing Mpumalanga boy found murderd and buried, South Africans heartbroken

South Africa

a year ago

The South African Police Service exhumed the body of Junior Mabandla, who went missing a month ago in Pienaar in Mpumalanga, was murdered and buried.

Water and Sanitation Minister Pemmy Majodina makes SA laugh with mispronounced word in TikTok video

Politics

a year ago

The new minister of Water and Sanitation Pemmy Majodina made South Africans laugh when she mispronounced an English word during her swearing-in ceremony.

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