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

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South African Police Service releases Olorato Mongale murder suspect who was a victim

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Vryburg principal arrested for selling teacher's post at high school, South Africans fuming

South Africa

a year ago

Olorato Mongale's cousin speaks out after suspect shot and killed in KwaZulu-Natal

South Africa

a year ago

SAPS arrest more suspects linked to the murder of Olorato Mongale

South Africa

a year ago

Joslin Smith: Jacquin Appollis' lawyer blames drugs for his actions

South Africa

a year ago

SAPS officers applauded after rescuing kidnapped and hijacked woman

South Africa

a year ago

3 corpses stolen at Kuruman mortuary have not been found, South Africans shaken

South Africa

a year ago

Three corpses which were stolen from a mortuary in Kuruman in the Northern Cape in March were unaccounted for two months later. South Africans reacted.

Kelly Smith weeps as Joslin Smith's grandmother blasts her in victim impact statements

South Africa

a year ago

Kelly Smith's mother's victim impact statement was read in the Western Cape High Court's sitting of her sentencing proceedings in Saldanha Bay on 28 May.

SASSA payments for KwaZulu-Natal residents to be delayed, SA worried

South Africa

a year ago

The South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) announced that 180,000 SASSA grant recipients will not receive their grants due to non-compliance.

7 killed in 2 accidents in Mpumalanga between bakkie and car

South Africa

a year ago

Seven people were killed in two separate accidents in Mpumalanga. The first accident on the R38 claimed four lives and the second claimed three lives.

South Africans worried that 7,627 teenagers fell pregnant in Durban in 2024 and 2025

South Africa

a year ago

Almost 8,000 teenagers fell pregnant in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal between April 2024 and April 2025. South Africans were worried and some called it a crisis.

Edenburg pastor given stiff sentence for raping minor, South Africans celebrate

South Africa

a year ago

The Edenburg Regional Court sentenced a 47-year-old pastor to life imprisonment for raping his stepdaughter for three years. South Africans celebrated.

4 killed and 10 hospitalised in the Eastern Cape after violence between locals and foreign nationals

South Africa

a year ago

Members of the South African Police Service were deployed to Addo in the Eastern Cape after four people were killed in clashes with foreign nationals.

EFF president Julius Malema slams proposed BBBEE changes, SA debates

Politics

a year ago

The president of the Economic Freedom Fighters, Julius Malema, rejected the proposed changes to the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment laws.

South Africans react to video of apartment for Afrikaners in the USA

a year ago

A video of Helping Hands International assisting Afrikaners to resettle in the United States went viral, and South Africans were not impressed by the video.

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