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

4991 articles published since 14 Jun 2023

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Returning Wits University students embark on a hunger strike over registration delays

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South African man confronted in viral video for allegedly raping 2 women he gave lifts to

South Africa

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Mbuyiseni Ndlozi opens up about new role at PowerFM: "Thank you"

Politics

a year ago

M23 rebels enter DRC's Bukavu as SA family fears for SANDF member who is hiding in the bushes

South Africa

a year ago

SA horrified after Limpopo officer arrested in connection with deaths of her son and his partner

South Africa

a year ago

Errol Musk says Elon Musk had a privileged childhood, South Africans not stunned

South Africa

a year ago

Cyril Ramaphosa praised after giving female staff workers Valentine's Day roses

Politics

a year ago

President Cyril Ramaphosa celebrated Valentine's Day when he handed out flowers to female staff members while en-route to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Former president Thabo Mbeki criticises Donald Trump, unpacks history of US-SA relations

Politics

a year ago

The former president Thabo Mbeki criticised United States president Donald Trump's foreign policy approach and compared him to other Republican presidents.

Explained: Donald Trump's soured relations with the South African government

a year ago

Briefly News takes a look at a history of Donald Trump's interactions with the South African government and the economy. Experts, including an economist, weighed in.

Motor Industry Staff Association calls on SA government to repair relations with Donald Trump

Politics

a year ago

The Motor Industry Staff Association called on President Cyril Ramaphosa to repair the relations between the United States and the South African government.

SAPS officer and Malawian illegal immigrant involved in R1.2 million insurance payout murder

South Africa

a year ago

A member of the South African Police Service is on trial after his lover, a miner from the North West, allegedly plotted and killed her cousin for insurance money.

Tshwane mayor Nasiphi Moya doubles down on calls for spaza shops to be strictly South African-owned

Politics

a year ago

The Tshwane Mayor Dr Nasiphi Moya doubled down on her stance on excluding foreign nationals from spaza shops and reserving the informal sector for locals.

AfriForum slams MK Party's treason case against it, calls it an absurd case

Politics

a year ago

AfriForum's CEO Kallie Kriel was unmoved by the MK Party's treason case, which it opened after President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order. SA weighed in.

Government reveals that SANDF forces in Goma under severe attack, retreat is tactically unsound

Politics

a year ago

The Minister of Defence Angie Motshekga said the South African National Defence Force was facing intense fire from the M23 rebels in the DRC. SA reacted.

EFF president Julius Malema roasts President Cyril Ramaphosa's SONA speech

Politics

a year ago

The Economic Freedom Fighters' president, Julius Malema, criticised President Cyril Ramaphosa's speech during the State of the Nation Address in Parliament.

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