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

4544 articles published since 14 Jun 2023

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South Africans furious as SASSA increases social grants by R10

South Africa

8 months ago

Alleged Senzo Mchunu letter reveals directive against Political Killings Task Team

Politics

8 months ago

SAPS deployed to Yeoville Clinic after locals and foreign nationals clash over healthcare services

South Africa

8 months ago

Retired Interpol ambassador slams Senzo Mchunu for PKTT disbandment

Politics

8 months ago

SAPS Legal head says Senzo Mchunu did not have the powers to disband PKTT

Politics

8 months ago

Gayton McKenzie pulls Patriotic Alliance out of the Government of National Unity

Politics

8 months ago

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

South Africa

8 months ago

The National Prosecuting Authority celebrated after the Gauteng High Court granted it an order to seize government land worth over 144 million that was stolen.

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

South Africa

8 months ago

The KwaZulu-Natal MEC for Transport, Siboniso Duma, called for an audit into the scholar transport industry after four children were injured in an accident.

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

Politics

8 months ago

The Deputy President of the Patriotic Alliance, Kenny Kunene, campaigned in Diepkloof, Soweto, for the upcoming by-elections in Ward 29. SA reacted.

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

Politics

8 months ago

Patriotic Alliance deputy president Kenny Kunene went viral in a video where he effected a citizen's arrest after he accused an alleged thug of trying to extort him.

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

South Africa

8 months ago

National Commissioner General Fannie Masemola alleged that General Shadrack Sibiya and Senzo Mchunu worked together to protect Gauteng-based syndicates.

Fannie Masemola's contradictory statements baffle Madlanga Commission of Inquiry

South Africa

8 months ago

The National Police Commissioner General Fannie Masemola's testimony was scrutinised at the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry's public hearings on 22 September 2025.

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

South Africa

8 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

8 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

8 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.

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