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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The president of the Economic Freedom Fighters, Julius Malema, reiterated his stance that he would not be bullied by billionaire Elon Musk who called him a criminal.

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The United States Embassy in Pretoria announced that it would send a petition from a group of Afrikaners who want Donald Trump to change SA laws.

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The KwaZulu-Natal provincial government has called on the residents of the province to practice hygienic practices after it recorded 117 FMD cases.

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President Cyril Ramaphosa, who attended the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, praised the new AU leadership. South Africans were not as confident.

SA mourns after openly gay imam Moegsien Hendricks assassinated in Eastern Cape

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a year ago

South Africa's first openly-gay imam Moegsien Hendricks was shot and killed while officiating a wedding between a lesbian couple in Gqeberha, Eastern Cape.

MK Party in Mpumalanga welcomes more than 1,000 new members including former mayor

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a year ago

The MK Party welcomed new members from other political parties in Mpumalanga. These include a former mayor who was axed from the African National Congress.

Over 300 white Christian leaders accuse US government of cheap political points, SA stans

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a year ago

Over 300 white Christian leaders in South Africa slammed the United States government and accused it of spreading outright lies about white South Africans.

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