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

5041 articles published since 14 Jun 2023

Author's articles

South Africans react after MK Party Secretary General Arthur Zwane resigns

Politics

2 years ago

COGTA MEC Lebogang Maile slams the Democratic Alliance, calls DA spoilt brats

Politics

2 years ago

Angie Motshekga's appointment as Defence Minister sparks debate

Politics

2 years ago

POPCRU welcomes the appointment of Pieter Groenewald as Correctional Services Minister

Politics

2 years ago

Economic Freedom Fighter's Julius Malema slams new cabinet, calls it bloated

Politics

2 years ago

ANC summons Jacob Zuma to disciplinary hearing on 17 July

Politics

2 years ago

Bela Bela man arrested after strangling 1 year-old toddler to death

South Africa

2 years ago

The South African Police Service arrested a man who allegedly killed a toddler in Bela Bela, Limpopo. He strangled the child and some were upset.

Gauteng Weather records earthquake in Johannesburg, South Africans make jokes

South Africa

2 years ago

An earthquake hit parts of Johannesburg, Gauteng, in the early hours of 1 July. South Africans joked that mother nature was responding to Ramaphosa's new cabinet.

South Africans unhappy with cabinet of 77 members: "It's a joke"

Politics

2 years ago

The President of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, announced his new cabinet, which included 77 members. SA was not happy, and many reacted negatively to the number.

Hawks seizes drugs valued at R47 million, SA not satisfied with results

South Africa

2 years ago

The Hawks, working with other law enforcement agencies, arrested almost 70 suspects and seized drugs worth over R27 million. SA was not convinced.

8 initiates have died in the Eastern Cape since initiation school season started

South Africa

2 years ago

The Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs has warned parents against bogus initiation schools after eight children died in the Eastern Cape.

EFF secretary-general Marshall Dlamini handed suspended sentence for assaulting officer

South Africa

2 years ago

The Economic Freedom Fighters' secretary-general Marshall Dlamini has been given an 18-month suspended sentence for assaulting a police officer in Parliament.