Claim: Electoral commissioner arrested for decade-old charity fraud – not for blowing the whistle on 'vote-rigging' in South Africa's 2024 elections
Fact-check: Electoral commissioner arrested for decade-old charity fraud – not for blowing the whistle on 'vote-rigging' in South Africa's 2024 elections
Verdict: the independent electoral commission's nomsa masuku was arrested on fraud charges in june 2024, just weeks after the country's general election. but the claim that she was arrested because she was one of many iec officials who blew the whistle on vote-rigging is false.
Organisation: Africa Check
Author: Mary Alexander
Date published: 2024-07-09T00:00:00