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

4971 articles published since 14 Jun 2023

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Activists and Citizens Forum slam Vusimuzi "Cat" Matlala's testimony before Ad Hoc Committee

South Africa

8 months ago

MK Party confirms MP Vusi Shongwe was kidnapped and robbed

Politics

8 months ago

Acting Deputy National Commissioner General Hilda Senthamule disagrees with PKTT disbandment

South Africa

8 months ago

Tshwane deputy mayor Eugene Modise allegedly illegally profited from a R300 million tender

South Africa

8 months ago

Economic Freedom Fighters march to the Constitutional Court for Phala Phala ruling

Politics

8 months ago

Vusimuzi "Cat" Matlala said Major-General Lesetja Senona is like his big brother

South Africa

8 months ago

Ad Hoc Committee: Cat Matlala says he used SAPS officer as errand boy

Politics

8 months ago

Attempted murder-accused Vusimuzi "Cat" Matlala testified before the Ad Hoc Committee that members of the South African Police Service ran his errands.

Vusimuzi "Cat" Matlala says he paid money to Bheki Cele's "hidden son"

South Africa

8 months ago

Vusimuzi Matlala testified before the Ad Hoc Committee at the Kgosi Mampuru II Correctional Centre in Tshwane. He said he gave Bheki Cele money for his son.

G20: A collection of what world leaders had to say about South Africa

South Africa

8 months ago

World leaders, including France's President Emmanuel Macron and Turkey's President Recep Erdogan, praised the G20 Summit, which was held in Johannesburg.

Public Protector launches probe into Cyril Ramaphosa

Politics

8 months ago

The Public Protector announced it will be launching an investigation into allegations that Cyril Ramaphosa abused his power. The MK Party lodged the complaint.

Donald Trump announces that South Africa will not be invited to the G20 Summit in the US

Politics

8 months ago

The President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, announced that South Africa will not be attending the G20 Summit in 2026 in the United States.

Ad Hoc Committee: Cat Matlala said he gave Brown Mogotsi money to help with case

South Africa

8 months ago

Vusimuzi "Cat" Matlala testified before the Ad Hoc Committee which held a sitting at the Kgosi Mampuru II Correctional Centre in Tshwane, Gauteng.

Ad Hoc Committee: Vusimuzi "Cat" Matlala contradicts Bheki Cele, says he gave him R500,000

Politics

8 months ago

Attempted murder-accused Vusimuzi "Cat" Matlala testified before the Ad Hoc Committee, which held a sitting at Kgosi Mampuru Correctional Centre.

SAHRC finds racism in the Department of Water and Sanitation leasing Hartbeespoort Dam property

South Africa

8 months ago

The South African Human Rights Commission found that the Department of Water and Sanitation was discriminatory in leasing property at Hartbeespoort Dam.

Vusimuzi "Cat" Matlala sceptical to testify amid criminal investigations

South Africa

8 months ago

Vusimuzi "Cat" Matlala, who appeared before the Ad Hoc Committee, said that he was not confident that the Committee's immunity would protect him from investigations.

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