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

5051 articles published since 14 Jun 2023

Author's articles

Eskom expected to improve loadshedding in the days to come, SA unamused by announcement

South Africa

2 years ago

Sexually transmitted infections on the rise in Gauteng, Mzansi not stunned

South Africa

2 years ago

African National Congress ordered to give Democratic Alliance cadre deployment records

Politics

2 years ago

Information Regulator to crack down on telemarketing 'spam' calls, South Africa relieved

South Africa

2 years ago

Democratic Alliance to open case of corruption against deputy president Paul Mashatile

Politics

2 years ago

Fikile Mbalula claims loadshedding occurs because of sabotage, South Africans incredulous

Politics

2 years ago

18 Cape Town shacks burn down after madala allegedly throws weed joint into bin full of papers

South Africa

2 years ago

18 shacks at an informal settlement in Cape Town burned after a man allegedly threw his joint bud in a plastic bin full of paper. South Africans were gutted.

Johannesburg Roads Agency fixes roads in a frenzy, residents unmoved: "Election year"

South Africa

2 years ago

The Johannesburg Roads Agency is working to fix roads in all the Johannesburg regions. South Africans are convinced that the road-fixing is for elections.

North West primary school principal suspended for holding classes in toilets, SA makes jokes

Education

2 years ago

A principal from a Taung, North West, school was suspended after the Department of Education discovered that he was holding classes in the toilets.

Opposition parties found Cyril Ramaphosa's SONA speech uninspiring, accuses him of campaigning

Politics

2 years ago

Opposition parties including the ACDP, IFP and the FF+ accused Ramaphosa of using his State of The Nation Address to campaign and called it uninspiring.

Popular Cape Town restaurant Emazulwini to close doors in February, South Africans saddened

Economy

2 years ago

Popular V&A Waterfront restaurant, Emazulwini, will be closing down at the end of February this year. South Africans believed that the poor economy is a cause.

Ennerdale school knife fight between pupils leaves 1 dead, another hospitalised

South Africa

2 years ago

Two learners from Ennerdale in Johannesburg fought at Oakdale Secondary School and one of them died after being stabbed. The other was hospitalised.

Naledi Pandor increases security amidst threats from Israeli Intelligence over ICJ ruling

South Africa

2 years ago

The Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Naledi Pandor, says she has received threats after the country's victory against Israel at the ICJ.