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

4567 articles published since 14 Jun 2023

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SASSA to introduce biometric system to beneficiaries, South Africans debate

South Africa

9 months ago

3 victims dead in Mkhuhlu shooting after gunmen open fire on car

South Africa

9 months ago

Grade 9 Eastern Cape learner stabbed with scissors in school

South Africa

9 months ago

Bail denied for one of the suspects arrested for 4 year-old child's drug case

South Africa

9 months ago

3-month-old Cape Town toddler shot and killed in horrific incident, SA broken

South Africa

9 months ago

North West man arrested after video of chilling murder and confession goes viral

South Africa

9 months ago

IEC anticipates 1 voters registration weekend for 2026 local government elections

Politics

9 months ago

The Independent Electoral Commission's Sy Mamabolo said that there may be only one voter registration weekend for the local government elections.

41-year-old Eastern Cape man sentenced for raping and impregnating his daughter

South Africa

9 months ago

The Gqeberha Regional Court in the Eastern Cape sentenced a 41 year-old man to life imprisonment for raping his daughter for eight years and impregnating her.

Portfolio Committee worried about SA Tourism Board dissolution as members consider legal action

Politics

9 months ago

The Portfolio Committee on Tourism's chairperson expressed concern that Tourism Minister Patricia De Lille dissolved the SA Tourism Board on 19 August.

General Shadrack Sibiya to challenge his allegedly unlawful suspension

South Africa

9 months ago

The suspended Deputy National Commissioner General Shadrack Sibiya is preparing to challenge his suspension and said that he was unlawfully suspended.

SAWS warns of a sudden increase in temperatures in parts of South Africa, leading to wildfires

South Africa

9 months ago

The South African Weather Service (SAWS) warned that temperatures in parts of the country, including Gauteng and Limpopo, could soar and lead to veldfires.

Economic Freedom Fighters slam the White House for demanding a SANDF visit to Iran

Politics

9 months ago

The Economic Freedom Fighters have defended South African National Defence Force chief General Rudanzi Maphwanya's visit to Iran. South Africans debated.

SA depressed as stats reveal that a 5th of South African households is starving

South Africa

9 months ago

Statistics South Africa revealed that 3.5 million households in South Africa are struggling to make ends meet and do not have enough food for the month.

Tourism minister Patricia de Lille dissolves SA Tourism Board, South Africans displeased

Politics

9 months ago

The Minister of Tourism, Patricia De Lille, dissolved the SA Tourisn board after it unlawfully convened a special board meeting in the absence of a chairperson.

Limpopo man who allegedly killed pregnant girlfriend arrested

South Africa

9 months ago

The South African Police Service arrested a Limpopo man for allegedly murdering his pregnant girlfriend months after he was arrested for assaulting her.

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