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

4979 articles published since 14 Jun 2023

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NPA recovers R144 million worth of stolen land, South Africans discuss land grabs

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KZN MEC Siboniso Duma calls for scholar transport audit after another Pietermaritzburg accident

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PA Deputy President Kenny Kunene returns on the campaign trail, South Africans not pleased

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10 months ago

PA deputy president Kenny Kunene causes uproar after video of him apprehending suspect goes viral

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10 months ago

Fannie Masemola accuses Senzo Mchunu and Shadrack Sibiya of protecting crime syndicates

South Africa

10 months ago

Fannie Masemola's contradictory statements baffle Madlanga Commission of Inquiry

South Africa

10 months ago

Fannie Masemola says Cyril Ramaphosa agreed to the Political Killings Task Team's disbandment

South Africa

10 months ago

National Police Commissioner General Fannie Masemola said that Senzo Mchunu implicated President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Political Killings Task Team saga.

Humansdorp Secondary School learner stabbed to death on school premises

South Africa

10 months ago

A Grade 12 learner from Humansdorp Secondary School in Humansdorp, Eastern Cape, was stabbed to death during a violent altercation on 23 September 2025.

South African pastors' predictions of rapture stir controversy on social media

South Africa

10 months ago

Two South African pastors, Joshua Mhlakela and Danie Botha, claimed that Jesus and the Holy Spirit told them that Jesus would return on 23 or 24 September 2025.

Fannie Masemola says whistleblower alerted him of Cat Matlala's alleged SAPS connections

South Africa

10 months ago

The National Police Commissioner General Fannie Masemola said a whistleblower revealed that Vusimuzi Matlala could compel police to do as he wished.

Operation Dudula slammed as it hits public schools to remove foreign nationals' children

Politics

10 months ago

Operation Dudula visited a school in Diepkloof, Soweto. This was after it pledged to remove undocumented foreigners' children from public schools in Gauteng.

Fannie Masemola praises Political Killings Task Team's crime-fighting abilities

South Africa

10 months ago

The National Commissioner General Fannie Masemola praised the Political Killings Task Team's ability to solve crime during his Madlanga Commission testimony.

Madlanga Commission of Inquiry: Fannie Masemola says councillors faked their own hits

Politics

10 months ago

The National Commissioner General Fannie Masemola said councillors organised their own hits so that they could get additional security personnel.

Fannie Masemola slams Senzo Mchunu allegedly disbanding Political Killings Task Team

South Africa

10 months ago

The National Commissioner, General Fannie Masemola, said that the suspended police minister Senzo Mchunu encroached on his role as the Commissioner.

Political parties react to Helen Zille as DA's Johannesburg mayoral candidate

Politics

10 months ago

The African National Congress, the Patriotic Alliance and ActionSA have slammed the Democratic Alliance for naming Helen Zille as its Johannesburg mayoral candidate.

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