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

5278 articles published since 14 Jun 2023

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SARS confirms that R35 billion withdrawn from 2-pot retirement system

South Africa

a year ago

Soshanguve couple found guilty of killing woman's ex-boyfriend for insurance

South Africa

a year ago

Western Cape child shot dead on their way to school, South Africans devastated

South Africa

a year ago

Abathembu King Dalindyebo's 6th wife Nolubabalo Mcinga resigns as EFF NCOP member

Politics

a year ago

Errol Musk opens up about impregnating stepdaughter, SA stunned

South Africa

a year ago

Mangaung SAPS searching for teenager who abandoned baby at hospital

South Africa

a year ago

United States of America ambassador Reuben Brigety resigns, SA celebrates: "Good riddance"

Politics

a year ago

The United States of America's ambassador to South Africa Reuben Brigety tended in his resignation after Donald Trump won the elections recently.

Johannesburg Water to shut water in 13 suburbs for 21 hours

South Africa

a year ago

Johannesburg Water will deprive 21 suburbs in Soweto for 21 hours to maintain leaking pipes. The City will also maintain the water levels, and some were relieved.

22-Year-old Limpopo man arrested for rape of 2 and 4-year-old children

South Africa

a year ago

The South African Police Service arrested a man from Thohoyandou in Limpopo for allegedly raping two children under the age of five. SA was furious.

City of eThekwini to spend R4.4 million on statue commemorating indentured Indians' arrival

South Africa

a year ago

The City of eThekwini will spend R4.4 million on constructing a commemoration statue to celebrate the arrival of indentured Indians to South Africans in 1860.

King Misuzulu denies woman who ran to him is his girlfriend, SA weighs in

South Africa

a year ago

Zulu King Misuzulu kaZwelethini denied that the woman who rushed to the stage he was on during the Presidential Imbizo was his girlfriend. He said he knew her.

City of Johannesburg propose Sandton Drive name change, netizens debate

Politics

a year ago

The City of Johannesburg proposed that Sandton Drive be renamed Laila Khaled Drive. South Africans strongly opposed the name change and called it a waste.

EFF slams ANC appointing Jabu Mbalula to replace Free State Premier MaQueen Letsoha-Mahae

Politics

a year ago

The Economic Freedom Fighters slammed the African National Congress for appointing Jabu Mbalula to replace suspended Free State premier MaQueen Letsoha-Mahae.

DA KZN slams racial slur against councillor as attack on Indian community

Politics

a year ago

The Democratic Alliance in eThekwini, KwaZulu-Natal, accused an unnamed councillor of racism after the councillor told a DA member to go back to Bombay.

Fikile Mbalula's brother Jabu Mbalula appointed Free State premier, SA muses

Politics

a year ago

The brother of the ANC's secretary general Fikile Mbalula, Jabu Mbalula, has been appointed as the Premier of the Free State until 15 December. SA was angry.

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