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 the Deputy Head of the Current Affairs desk and a 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.

3486 articles published since 14 Jun 2023

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Mmusi Maimane roasts Zimbabwean president Emmerson Mnangagwa

Politics

10 months ago

Cyril Ramaphosa congratulates Donald Trump on winning US 2024 Elections during phone call

Politics

10 months ago

Advocate Thuli Madonsela warns against closing spaza shops

South Africa

10 months ago

Mangaung parents demand accountability after 24 children hospitalised from alleged food poisoning

South Africa

10 months ago

Julius Malema attends Botswana president Duma Boko's inauguration ceremony

Politics

10 months ago

Fikile Mbalula calls for action on spaza shops after 12 food poisoning-related deaths

Politics

10 months ago

Kelly Khumalo named as 6th suspect in Senzo Meyiwa's murder

South Africa

10 months ago

The lead investigator in Senzo Meyiwa's murder case revealed that Kelly Khumalo was named the sixth suspect and he was ready to issue a warrant for her arrest.

Limpopo SAPS arrest brother, 43, and sister, 24, for allegedly killing woman's 1 day old infant

South Africa

10 months ago

Two Limpopo siblings were arrested after they allegedly killed a one-day infant after the younger sister gave birth to her at home. Netizens were horrified.

ANC Secretary General Fikile Mbalula claims ANC hates GNU

Politics

10 months ago

The African National Congress's secretary general Fikile Mbalula slammed the Democratic Alliance's Federal Chair Helen Zille and called her an opportunist.

Limpopo druglords apply for bail after new evidence surfaces against them

South Africa

10 months ago

Two of the five suspects arrested for allegedly running a drug lab in Groblersdal, Limpopo, made a fresh bail application after new evidence surfaced.

Over 140 illegal miners surface from Potchefstroom mine, most of them illegal foreign nationals

South Africa

10 months ago

The South African Police Service in the North West arrested over 140 illegal miners in Potchefstroom. they resurfaced from an old mine which they illegally mined.

COPE, DA calls for administrative systems upgrade following R128 million corruption saga

Politics

10 months ago

Opposition parties, the Democratic Alliance and COPE have called for the Polokwane Municipality to upgrade its outdated manual administrative system.

Bridge partially collapses in KwaZulu-Natal because of heavy rainfalls, SA concerned

South Africa

10 months ago

A bridge on the N2 south near Amanzimtoti in KwaZulu-Natal partially collapsed due to the heavy rainfall the province experienced. A few cars were damaged.

SAPS arrest Dennilton man accused of raping 2 minors, SA calls for life sentence

South Africa

10 months ago

The Dennilton South African Police Service arrested a 43-year-old man who raped two minors. They had gone to his house to ask him for help with a school project.

Infant injured and 1 die in Umgungundlovu during severe thunderstorms in KZN

South Africa

10 months ago

Lightning struck a house in Umgungundlovu in KwaZulu-Natal and it injured three people and killed one person during a severe thunderstorm that struck the province.

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