Johannesburg, April 16 :     South Africa is launching a judicial inquiry into allegations of match-fixing against former cricket captain Hansie Cronje tomorrow amid indications that the exercise may be made public. Sources say the International Cricket Council has come out in support of the open-inquiry stand understood to have been taken by the United Cricket Board of South Africa. Bronwyn Wilkinson, communications manager of the South African board, said a judge was expected to be named tomorrow, following which discussions would be held to fix the terms of reference of the inquiry. Although it is up to the judge to decide what form the inquiry should take, there is the view that the findings as well as some of the submissions be made public. If the judge holds the same opinion, it is the sort of good news South Africa needs now as a transparent approach is seen as the best way to clean up what has become a national issue. [India still cannot decide whether to make the Justice Chandrachud report on allegations of match-fixing by Indian players public. The uncertainty is difficult to explain since, from all accounts, Justice Y.V. Chandrachud did not find any hard evidence.] South Africans woke up today to another round of disillusionment with fallen national hero Cronje as reports suggested that the sacked captain may have been lying when he denied having fixed matches. Another report appeared to indicate that Cronje had confessed to taking $8,200 from an Indian bookmaker after a meeting with deputy minister for foreign affairs Aziz Pahad. He was told at the meeting that there was 'irrefutable evidence' and that in his best interests it would be 'advisable to come clean'. Pahad's meeting with Cronje followed his talks with the Indian high commissioner, Harsh Bhasin, in Pretoria a week ago. Cronje, it seems, decided to make the 3 am confession to board chief Ali Bacher after meeting Pahad. Publication of a transcript, for the first time here, of purported conversations between Cronje and bookmaker Sanjeev Chawla has come as a fresh jolt to South Africans, AFP reports. If the transcript is genuine, it flies in the face of Cronje's denial of match-fixing. In it, Cronje tells the bookmaker before the Nagpur match that South Africa would set a 'target' of 270. Chawla had allegedly said: 'OK, so if it touches 270, it's off.' The South Africans, however, scored 320, fired by a thunderous innings by Lance Klusener, apparently leading to the collapse of the so-called deal. The writer is international cricket correspondent with CricInfo