Sello S Alcock presents brief profiles of the members of the Judicial Service Commission’s complaints committee who will decide Judge Hlophe’s fate.
It was touted to be a friendly, "inquisitorial" forum, but had all the elements of a bitter family feud where old comrades squared up in new battles. On the one side: the mandarins of the state and the political party that brought liberation, fighting to protect old networks of solidarity.