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

4991 articles published since 14 Jun 2023

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North West mother denied bail for attempted murder of 14-year-old daughter

South Africa

a year ago

KZN police commissioner Lt. Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi worried about declining police numbers

South Africa

a year ago

Deputy Minister of Police Polly Boshielo devastated by the deaths of the 3 SAPS constables

South Africa

a year ago

40 bodies found buried in 2 unmarked graves in Limpopo, South Africans stunned

South Africa

a year ago

Portfolio committee rejects deputy minister's bid to summon MacG over Minnie Dlamini comments

Politics

a year ago

3 min Premier Maqueen Letsoha-Mathae slams social media users during 3 constables' memorial service

South Africa

a year ago

City of Tshwane to switch Weskoppies Hospital electricity back on after payment agreement reached

South Africa

a year ago

The City of Tshwane's Mayor Dr Nasiphi Moya, defended why Weskoppies Hospital's electricity was cut, and said patients' lives were not placed at risk.

Family of one of the 3 SAPS constables who died still wants answers

South Africa

a year ago

The family of Constable Cebekhulu Linda, one of the three South African Police Service officers, has unanswered questions about how their son died in an accident.

4 killed in Western Cape collision between 2 vehicles, South Africans horrified

South Africa

a year ago

Four people were killed in an accident on the N2 in Plettenberg Bay in the Western Cape on 6 May 2025. A bus collided with a smaller vehicle in the morning.

Eastern Cape Premier defends woman after court withdraws case against for killing her child's rapist

South Africa

a year ago

Eastern Cape Premier Oscar Mabuyane defended a woman who was arrested for killing a man who allegedly raped her disabled daughter. She was released on bail.

SAPS arrests young Free State couple after toddler and infant burn to death

South Africa

a year ago

The South African Police Service arrested a young couple from Reitz in the Free State after their children died in a shack fire while they were out drinking.

Fikile Mbalula calls for ANC members to be like ZCC members and Kaizer Chiefs fans

Politics

a year ago

The African National Congress's Secretary-General, Fikile Mbalula, encouraged ANC members to emulate the discipline of ZCC members. South Africans laughed.

ANC members reportedly back Patrice Motsepe as president for 2027

Politics

a year ago

Senior members within the African National Congress have reportedly been shadow-campaigning for billionaire Patrice Motsepe to be the ANC president.

SA slams parliamentary committee chairperson Khusela Diko's call for podcast sector to be regulated

Politics

a year ago

The Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Communications, Khusela Diko, has called for a regulation of podcasts after MacG's comments about Minnie Dlamini.

Fikile Mbalula under pressure as calls for DA to be removed from the GNU increase

Politics

a year ago

African National Congress Members of Parliament have pressurised secretary-general Fikile Mbalula to act against the Democratic Alliance. SA weighed in.

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