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 joined Briefly News in 2023 and is the Deputy Head of Department for the Current Affairs desk. He has a Diploma in Journalism from ALISON. He joined Daily Sun, where he worked for 4 years covering politics, crime, entertainment, current affairs, policy, governance, and art. He was also a sub-editor and journalist for Capricorn Post before joining Vutivi Business News in 2020, where he covered small business news, policy and governance, analysis, and profiles. Tebogo passed a set of trainings by Google News Initiative Email: tebogo.mokwena@briefly.co.za

3468 articles published since 14 Jun 2023

Author's articles

4 killed in Western Cape collision between 2 vehicles, South Africans horrified

4 killed in Western Cape collision between 2 vehicles, South Africans horrified

South Africa

3 months ago

Eastern Cape Premier defends woman after court withdraws case against for killing her child's rapist

Eastern Cape Premier defends woman after court withdraws case against for killing her child's rapist

South Africa

3 months ago

SAPS arrests young Free State couple after toddler and infant burn to death

SAPS arrests young Free State couple after toddler and infant burn to death

South Africa

3 months ago

Fikile Mbalula calls for ANC members to be like ZCC members and Kaizer Chiefs fans

Fikile Mbalula calls for ANC members to be like ZCC members and Kaizer Chiefs fans

Politics

3 months ago

ANC members reportedly back Patrice Motsepe as president for 2027

ANC members reportedly back Patrice Motsepe as president for 2027

Politics

3 months ago

SA slams parliamentary committee chairperson Khusela Diko's call for podcast sector to be regulated

SA slams parliamentary committee chairperson Khusela Diko's call for podcast sector to be regulated

Politics

3 months ago

Fikile Mbalula under pressure as calls for DA to be removed from the GNU increase

Fikile Mbalula under pressure as calls for DA to be removed from the GNU increase

Politics

3 months ago

African National Congress Members of Parliament have pressurised secretary-general Fikile Mbalula to act against the Democratic Alliance. SA weighed in.

Deputy National Commissioner General Shadrack Sibiya says speeding caused 3 officers' deaths

Deputy National Commissioner General Shadrack Sibiya says speeding caused 3 officers' deaths

South Africa

3 months ago

The South African Police Service (SAPS) deputy nastional commissioner of investigations Lieutenant-General Shadrack Sibiya spoke on the 3 cops' deaths.

South Africans call for supermarket regulation as food prices increase despite decrease in inflation

South Africans call for supermarket regulation as food prices increase despite decrease in inflation

South Africa

3 months ago

The Pietermaritzburg Economic Justice and Dignity revealed that South Africans spend an average of over R5,000 on groceries. Netizens called for change.

South Africans laugh as Panyaza Lesufi issues stern warning to undocumented foreigners in Gauteng

South Africans laugh as Panyaza Lesufi issues stern warning to undocumented foreigners in Gauteng

Politics

3 months ago

The African National Congress's Gauteng provincial co-convenor Panyaza Lesufi said undocumented foreigners in the province must get their papers in order.

SAPS Kraaifontein constable shot at mosque, netizens angered by killing

SAPS Kraaifontein constable shot at mosque, netizens angered by killing

South Africa

3 months ago

A South African Police Service officer stationed at the Kraaifontein Police Station in Cape Town, Western Cape, was shot and killed outside a mosque.

15 dead and 5 injured in R63 head-on collision between taxi and bakkie in Eastern Cape

15 dead and 5 injured in R63 head-on collision between taxi and bakkie in Eastern Cape

South Africa

3 months ago

A total of 15 people died in an accident on the R63 between a taxi and a bakkie. The accident happened between Maqoma and Adelaide in the Eastern Cape.

Families of the 3 dead SAPS constables to fetch their bodies from Gauteng

Families of the 3 dead SAPS constables to fetch their bodies from Gauteng

South Africa

3 months ago

The family members of the South African Police Service constables who were found dead in Tshwane will fetch their bodies on 4 May 2205 in Gauteng.

SANDF confirms that soldiers in DRC have begun returning to South Africa

SANDF confirms that soldiers in DRC have begun returning to South Africa

South Africa

3 months ago

The South African National Defence Force announced that the soldiers deployed in the DRC have begun their withdrawal through Rwanda to Tanzania.

ANC Limpopo's regional elective conference postponed over infighting

ANC Limpopo's regional elective conference postponed over infighting

Politics

3 months ago

The African National Congress's Norman Mashabane Regional branch in Mopani, Limpopo, postponed its elective conference due to unresolved disputes.

Tebogo Mokwena