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DCEC informer, SB fight in court

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Seretse and Majelantle
When she honoured a formal request for information from the head of Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC),Rose Seretse, in her capacity as HR officer at Statistics Botswana (SB) in 2014 little did Marang Teisi realise that she would be fired some months down the line. Statistician General Anna Majelantle fired Teisi in February 2016 after she was convicted by a disciplinary committee panel on charges of leaking confidential information to third parties, after a draft she had prepared was used by former MP James Mathokgwane in Parliament. The media also published stories based on the contents of the report alleging corruption and maladministration at Statistics Botswana. The confidential information she is suspected to have leaked is a report detailing controversial recruitment, staff appointments and award of a tender for the payroll system installation at Statistics Botswana. Teisi will face her former employer in court in April 2017, where she wants court to reverse her dismissal. Teisi's argumentAttorneys representing the two parties - Lesedi Moahi for Teisi and Thabiso Tafila of Minchin &Kelly for Statistics Botswana - met before Justice Abednigo Tafa recently in a pre-trial conference where April 2017 was set as the date for trial. In her…

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