Election fraud whistle-blower reinstated

Ballot boxes. PIC MORERI SEJAKGOMO
Ballot boxes. PIC MORERI SEJAKGOMO

The election whistle-blower, who was booted out of her cleaning job for raising the alarm on possible election fraud during the 2019 General Election, has been given her job back.

Tlhalefang Kolobetso, a cleaner at Gantsi District Commissioner at the time, was on Friday reinstated by the Maun High Court.

Kolobetso was charged for contravening the Public Service Act (PSA) and was later dismissed from her job in June 2021 after going through a disciplinary hearing. She was accused of wilfully disclosing confidential information, contravening Section 27 (3) (i) of the PSA, which bars public servants from wilfully disclosing confidential information where such disclosure had not been authorised by the government or according to any law or court order or was likely to be detrimental to the interests of the employer.

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