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 a Current Affairs writer. 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

3237 articles published since 14 Jun 2023

Author's articles

Eastern Cape floods: Thembi Simelane says government could give victims R12,000 grant to rebuild

Eastern Cape floods: Thembi Simelane says government could give victims...

South Africa

17 days ago

More snow predicted for parts of South Africa including Eastern Cape and Free State; SA not ready

More snow predicted for parts of South Africa including Eastern Cape and Free...

South Africa

18 days ago

SA blasts Kgosientsho Ramokgopa for saying African countries must collaborate to solve energy crisis

SA blasts Kgosientsho Ramokgopa for saying African countries must collaborate to...

Politics

18 days ago

Western Cape High Court Sentences Fast Guns gang members for murder of little girl

Western Cape High Court Sentences Fast Guns gang members for murder of little...

South Africa

18 days ago

SAPS investigating after more than 20 buses set alight in Pretoria

SAPS investigating after more than 20 buses set alight in Pretoria

South Africa

18 days ago

Cape Town e-hailing driver and 2 passengers brutally murdered in shooting

Cape Town e-hailing driver and 2 passengers brutally murdered in shooting

South Africa

18 days ago

Democratic Alliance denies Gayton McKenzie's allegations of a lack of coloured representation

Democratic Alliance denies Gayton McKenzie's allegations of a lack of coloured representation

Politics

18 days ago

The Democratic Alliance's spokesperson, Karabo Khakhau, denied that the party lacks sufficient coloured representation in its provincial structures.

Gift of the Givers' Eastern Cape staff victims of extortion, SA heartbroken

Gift of the Givers' Eastern Cape staff victims of extortion, SA heartbroken

South Africa

18 days ago

The Gift of the Givers employees were victims of extortion after extortionists in Mthatha, Eastern Cape, allegedly prevented them from delivering water.

Thabo Bester: State drops charges against former G4S employee

Thabo Bester: State drops charges against former G4S employee

South Africa

19 days ago

One of the suspects who was accused of assisting Thabo Bester escape from prison was set free after he appeared at the Bloemfontein Magistrates Court on 17 June.

MK Party president Jacob Zuma criticised for comments about the party's former members

MK Party president Jacob Zuma criticised for comments about the party's former members

Politics

19 days ago

MK Party president Jacob Zuma was slammed by social media users for criticising party members and accusing them of being ill-disciplined on Youth Day.

South Africans roast SANDF members after general Rudzani Maphwanya praises them for DRC deployment

South Africans roast SANDF members after general Rudzani Maphwanya praises them for DRC deployment

Politics

20 days ago

The South African National Defence Force Chief General Rudzani Maphwanya praised the troops who returned from their deployment in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

2 KZN SAPS officers wounded during fatal shootout with CIT heist suspects

2 KZN SAPS officers wounded during fatal shootout with CIT heist suspects

South Africa

20 days ago

Two members of the South African Police Service sustained injuries during a gunfight with two suspected cash-in-transit heist robbers in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal.

Potchefstroom community members protest ahead of Paul Mashatile's visit for Youth Day

Potchefstroom community members protest ahead of Paul Mashatile's visit for Youth Day

South Africa

20 days ago

Young community members in Potchefstroom embarked on service delivery protests on Youth Day, ahead of Paul Mashatile's commemoration event in the city.

257 SANDF members return from DRC deployment, South Africans happy

257 SANDF members return from DRC deployment, South Africans happy

South Africa

20 days ago

The second group of South African National Defence Force (SANDF) landed at the Waterkloof Base from the Democratic Republic of Congo on 15 June 2025.

3 killed in mosque shooting in Eldorado Park, Johannesburg

3 killed in mosque shooting in Eldorado Park, Johannesburg

South Africa

20 days ago

Three people were killed when armed men in a white Audi shot at a group of nine young men outside of a mosque in Eldorado Park, Johannesburg, on 14 June 2025.

Tebogo Mokwena