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Sello S Alcock

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Sello S Alcock

Go big or go home!

Go big or go home!

‘Tis the season to get together with family and friends, writes <b>Nikiwe Bikitsha</b>.

Southwestern hospitality

Southwestern hospitality

A backpackers in Soweto is brimming with tourists here for football and a taste of authentic South African culture.

Mpshe’s new job under fire

Mpshe’s new job under fire

The appointment of former acting prosecutions head Mokotedi Mpshe as an acting judge on the North West bench may be unconstitutional.

Radebe job-hunts for Mpshe

Radebe job-hunts for Mpshe

Justice minister in ‘highly unusual’ campaign to find post on Bench for former acting NPA chief.

Police ‘snub’ offer of sniffer dogs for Cup

The <i>Mail & Guardian</i> has been reliably told that South Africa has a serious shortage of trained dogs and handlers.

KZN police station cooked crime stats

KZN police station cooked crime stats

In a breakthrough investigation, the ICD has found that crime statistics at Mountain Rise police station in Pietermaritzburg were manipulated.

SAPS recruitment drive may misfire

Researchers and the police trade union have warned that the South African Police Service’s drive to lure back 50 000 retired officers could founder.

From SOS to VIP

Ermelo has come up with an innovative solution to ease the trauma of crime-hit tourists

Daimler’s economic threat

Daimler’s economic threat

Daimler asks government to clarify the "confusion and uncertainty" about its position on the reparation suit by apartheid victims.

Simelane’s suspect judgement

Controversial new prosecutions boss Menzi Simelane’s questionable past in the Justice Department continues to haunt him.

New-look judiciary mooted

Chief Justice Sandile Ngcobo is setting out to transfer the administrative side of the courts to the judiciary.

Meyer Joffe tipped for top job at judicial institution

The Jackie Selebi trial judge, Meyer Joffe, is the only contender for the South African Judicial Institute’s top job.

‘Respecting and protecting the rule of law is critical’

Margaret Marshall, a South African who immigrated to the US in 1963, is the chief justice of the State of Massachusetts.

A stone’s throw from home

Sello Alcock visits Kliptown’s Soweto Hotel on Freedom Square to see if he can have a meaningful tourist experience in his own backyard.

Insecurity in the forces

South Africa’s police officers are insecure and uncertain after more than a decade of mixed messages from their superiors.

Judges must show ‘n tell

From next year judges will be expected to disclose all their financial interests — as politicians are required to do.

Ponzi-scheme suspect Tannenbaum faces arrest

Arrest warrants for the masterminds of a Ponzi scheme that led to wealthy South Africans being swindled have been issued, it was announced on Tuesday.

‘Wait until the first child dies’

ANC veteran Kader Asmal has publicly attacked Deputy Police Minister Fikile Mbalula over the latter’s call for the militarisation of the police.

Portrait of a warrior-scholar

Sello Alcock reviews <em>Hani: A life Too Short</em> by Janet Smith and Beauregard Tromp.

Killings by cops at 10-year high

Death toll nearly as high as during student protests in apartheid era, reports Sello Alcock.