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

5070 articles published since 14 Jun 2023

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Family of 4 killed KwaZulu-Natal massacre, South Africans fearful of the province

South Africa

2 years ago

70 police officers slain in 7 months, Bheki Cele calls on SAPS officers to fight fire with fire

South Africa

2 years ago

Itumeleng Khune allegedly showed up at training under influence of alcohol, fans call for him to quit

Football

2 years ago

Pretoria Spar employees detail allegedly cooking rotten meat in TikTok video, SA livid

South Africa

2 years ago

Former president Thabo Mbeki applauded after calling for action against banks implicated in rand manipulation

Politics

2 years ago

June Steenkamp believes Oscar Pistorius is not rehabilitated, SA rebukes her: “Heal, gogo”

South Africa

2 years ago

Cyril Ramaphosa’s adorable TikTok video of riding a helicopter goes viral, netizens gush over him

People

2 years ago

President Cyril Ramaphosa made women smile when he rode on a helicopter in a TikTok video. He grinned happily in the clip and South Africans were charmed.

Breaking

Oscar Pistorius granted parole and will be out in January 2024, Netizens argue decision

South Africa

2 years ago

Oscar Pistorius has been granted bail and is expected to be released on 5 January 2024 after undergoing a pre-release programme. Many South Africans are unhappy.

Eskom announces stage 6 loadshedding for the weekend, SA fuming: “Enough is enough”

South Africa

2 years ago

Eskom announced that the country will be thrown into Stage six loadshedding for the weekend due to generation issues and back up systems. SA was gatvol.

Cape Town SAPS seize fake clothes worth over R100 million in Belville Taxi Rank, Mzansi applauds their work

South Africa

2 years ago

The South African Police Service in Cape Town seized counterfeit clothing worth over R100 million at the Belville Taxi Rank, where the shop owners escaped.

Parliament Speaker Solomon Tsenoli turns down ATM leader Vuyo Zungulu’s request for rand manipulation debate

Politics

2 years ago

The National Assembly's speaker Solomon Tsenoli denied African Transformation Movement's leader Vuyo Zungula's request for parliament to debate rand manipulation.

Thulas Nxesi applies to have R5 billion UIF deal set aside, South Africans call him useless

Politics

2 years ago

The Minister of Employment and Labour, Thulas Nxesi, applied for the UIF R5 billion deal with Thujas Capital Fund to be set aside. Netizens roasted him.

Miner who allegedly killed colleague abandons bail application, SA pities him

South Africa

2 years ago

South Africans pity the Sibanye-Stillwater employee who allegedly killed his colleague and recorded himself with his dead body after disemboweling him.

High temperatures caused by global warming, South Africans joke about the cause: “I blame Mantashe”

South Africa

2 years ago

The weather has not been this hot since over 200 years ago, and this is due to climate change and greenhouse gas emissions making the earth hotter.

2024 General Elections: Fikile Mbalula roasted for tweeting wrong figures for new voters registered

Politics

2 years ago

Fikile Mbalula, the African National Congress's secretary general, posted some incorrect voter registration figures and was roasted by netizens for his mistake.

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