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

5269 articles published since 14 Jun 2023

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SA celebrates as Gauteng Liquor Board suspends Zanzou liquor licence which was operating illegally

South Africa

a year ago

4 United States members of Congress ask Donald Trump to cut diplomatic ties with South Africa

Politics

a year ago

Zanzou: former bouncer responsible for leaking videos begs government for protection in viral video

South Africa

a year ago

Zanzou ex-shareholder distances himself from the club as issues of noncompliance emerge

South Africa

a year ago

Panyaza Lesufi appointed ANC GP's co-convener with Amos Masondo in leadership reconfiguration

Politics

a year ago

MK Party movement tries to stop Zanzou club management truck from collecting booze

South Africa

a year ago

SA calls for noncompliant Zanzou to be closed after crimen injuria, compelled rape cases opened

South Africa

a year ago

The South African Police Service has confirmed that cases of rape, crimen injuria, assault and kidnapping were opened against the owners of Zanzou.

Minister Ronald Lamola excited for G20 Foreign Ministers' meeting: "A theatre of engagements"

Politics

a year ago

The Minister of International Relations Ronald Lamola said the upcoming G20 Foreign Ministers' meeting will be a platform to discuss geopolitics.

University of Cape Towns student accuses UCT of academic and financial exclusion in exclusive

Education

a year ago

Students at the University of Cape Town marched to the campus's administration to give a memorandum of demands to financially and academically included.

Starlink deal in jeopardy after President Cyril Ramaphosa accuses Elon Musk of holding racist views

Politics

a year ago

The presidency said that billionaire Elon Musk's views on the country's policies make it extremely difficult for President Cyril Ramaphosa to want Starlink in SA.

Pretoria club Zanzou takes action against bouncers after video of them torturing patrons goes viral

South Africa

a year ago

Pretoria club Zanzou has confirmed that the bouncers who were involved in torturing a group of men in viral videos have been fired, and SA weighed in.

Nelson Mandela's great-grandson Mayibuye disillusioned with the ANC, joins Economic Freedom Fighters

Politics

a year ago

Mayibuye Mandela, former President Nelson Mandela's great-grandson, has joined the Economic Freedom Fighters after expressing disillusionment with the ANC.

SA stunned after SAPS arrests 3 suspects in KwaZulu-Natal caught transporting corpse in wheelbarrow

South Africa

a year ago

The South African Police Service in KwaZulu-Natal arrested three men who were found pushing the body of a dead person in a wheelbarrow. SA was stunned.

Expert warns that resettlement to the US for Afrikaners could take years to happen

Politics

a year ago

An economist warned that United States President Donald Trump's Executive Order which granted Afrikaners refugee status could take years to be realised.

Mzansi cheers as Julius Malema says he will not be bullied by Elon Musk

Politics

a year ago

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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