Disgruntled Gov't Employee Redeployed Back To Cleaning For Complaining

Segolame Itumeleng, who is suing her then employer, the Ministry of Land Management, Water and Sanitation Services for exploiting her for three years by paying her a cleaner’s salary, was redeployed back to cleaning for raising an alarm on the ill-treatment. She appeared before Gaborone High Court judge, Omphemetse Motumise yesterday where the Attorney General (AG) sought a postponement of the case to June 14, 2018 in an attempt to try and settle the matter.

According to her court documents, Itumeleng started her career as a cleaner at the same ministry in June 2005.  In or around 2011, the employee was then enrolled into a vocational course in electrical engineering at Madirelo Training and Testing Centre under the ministry, which she completed in 2012. The ministry was then called the Labour and Home Affairs, . She was then awarded a Class B Trade Test certificate.