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

4972 articles published since 14 Jun 2023

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MK Party rejects Democratic Alliance's no-confidence motion against Panyaza Lesufi

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SAPS arrests suspect for allegedly murdering Mamelodi cousins

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Durban residents protest after twins fall in unmanned shaft, causing 1 death

South Africa

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Durban ranked the worst port in the world, city kicks in recovery plan

South Africa

9 months ago

3 Killed in horrific helicopter accident in the Northern Cape

South Africa

9 months ago

Mother mourns as 2 Tshwane cousins shot and killed in brutal attack

South Africa

9 months ago

Madlanga Commission: SA reacts as witness implicates top cops in tender fraud

South Africa

9 months ago

Witness C testified at the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry that top police officers received kickbacks from a R1 billion tender that Vusimuzi Matlala received.

Bheki Cele says Cyril Ramaphosa took a picture with Cat Matlala

Politics

9 months ago

Former Police Minister Bheki Cele alleged in Parliament that President Cyril Ramaphosa took a picture with attempted murder-accused Vusimuzi Matlala.

Polokwane learner killed in accident involving scholar transport

South Africa

9 months ago

The Polokwane Local Municipality conveyed its condolences to the family of a six-year-old girl who was killed after a bus ran over her on 24 October.

Milnerton High School assault suspect escapes hit-and-run accident

South Africa

9 months ago

One of the Milnerton High School learners who was accused of assaulting his fellow learner was almost hit by a vehicle. He dove out of the way and escaped.

New HIV prevention drug Lenacapavir rolls out in 2026

South Africa

9 months ago

HIV prevention drug Lenacapavir, which has been tested in South Africa during clinical trials, will be made available in the country in 2026 for high-risk groups.

Deputy Judge President Aubrey Ledwaba accused of receiving R2.5 million to release KT Molefe

South Africa

9 months ago

The Chief Justice, Mandisa Maya, addressed allegations that Deputy Judge President Aubrey Ledwaba received R2.5 million to release KT Molefe on bail.

Bheki Cele details his relationship with Cat Matlala: “It scared me”

South Africa

9 months ago

The former Minister of Police, Bheki Cele, continued his testimony before the Ad Hoc Committee and said that Vusimuzi Matlala had former soldiers as bodyguards.

Milnerton High School assault suspects granted R2,000 bail each

South Africa

9 months ago

The Cape Town Magistrates Court granted six of the eight high schoolers arrested for allegedly assaulting a Milnerton High School R2,000 bail on 23 October.

Pig farm murder: witness accuses SAPS officers of assaulting him

South Africa

9 months ago

Rudolph De Wet, whoturned state witness after he was arrested for the murder of two women, whose bodies were dumped in a pig sty, said the police assaulted him.

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