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

5269 articles published since 14 Jun 2023

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US signs executive order to classify Afrikaner farmers as refugees, SA unimpressed

Politics

a year ago

SONA 2025: UNISA political analyst says creating employment is not the job of the government

Politics

a year ago

SONA 2025: Cyril Ramaphosa announces R940 billion to be spent on infrastructure

Politics

a year ago

Economic Freedom Fighters wants nothing to do with the MK Party: Julius Malema

Politics

a year ago

Presidency, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi distances itself from NHI deal between ANC and DA

Politics

a year ago

Gayton McKenzie and Herman Mashaba roast each other in X spat, SA not amused

Politics

a year ago

South Africans blast Mpumalanga farmer arrested for repackaging expired and rotten food for resale

South Africa

a year ago

The South African Police Service arrested a Mpumalanga farmer for allegedly repackaging expired and rotten food and redistributing it for consumption.

South Africans welcome US Secretary of State's decision not to attend G20 Summit in South Africa

a year ago

The United States' Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that he will not be attending the G20 Summit after Donald Trump announced that he'd cut aid to SA.

SA amused as TMPD officers impound Afrikaans-only e-hailing services Wanatu

South Africa

a year ago

The Tshwane Metro Police Department impounded three Wanatu e-hailing taxis for operating without licences. South Africans celebrated the TMPD's deeds.

SAPS officers condemned for violently assaulting complainant in viral video

South Africa

a year ago

The South African Police Service is investigating a police brutality incident in which two police officers assaulted a female complainant in the Free State.

South Africans debate after Government announces minimum wage increase for domestic and farm workers

South Africa

a year ago

The South African government announced that the minimum wage has increased to R28,79 per hour for every worker including domestic workers. SA debated.

Presidency denies SANDF is in DRC to protect Cyril Ramaphosa's mineral interests

Africa

a year ago

The Presidency's spokesperson Vincent Magwenya denied claims Rwandan president Paul Kagame made that the SANDF is protecting Cyril Ramaphosa's interests.

South Africans celebrate the life of the late billionaire Douw Steyn: "His legacy will live on"

South Africa

a year ago

South Africans on social media celebrated billionaire Douw Steyn's impact on the insurance industry after he died from a long illness at the age of 71.

16-year-old Gauteng teenager busts 18-year-old brother dumping body of sibling he allegedly poisoned

South Africa

a year ago

A teenager from Orange Farm in Gauteng was arrested after he handed himself over for allegedly poisoning his little brother. South Africans were horrified.

Bodies of slain 14 SANDF members to be repatriated, South Africans heartbroken

South Africa

a year ago

The South African National Defence Force will repatriate the remains of the 14 soldiers who died in an ambush at an airport in Goma by the M23 rebel forces.

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