Hendrik Hancke Senior reporter

Hendrik Hancke is an award-winning senior journalist who escaped the clutches of the Afrikaans media and now writes for Sunday Times and TimesLIVE about safety and security, energy and social issues.

Hendrik Hancke Senior reporter
How to outrun a VAT hike nightmare

For comrade David Masondo, there’s nothing like the Comrades Marathon to put things in perspective.

Hendrik Hancke Senior reporter
'He was not Olorato's type'

Olorato Mongale's mom had doubts about 'charmer' who took her daughter on a date

Hendrik Hancke Senior reporter
How Philangenkosi Makhanya was hunted down

Technology and smart detective work led cops to Olorato Mongale’s suspected killer's hideout on KZN coast

Hendrik Hancke Senior reporter
Teens ‘wash’ teacher’s car — in a canal

A Northern Cape high schoolteacher’s car was badly damaged after she gave her keys to pupils during school hours to wash the vehicle as part of an ...

Hendrik Hancke Senior reporter
Vrystaat! Rayno muscles Mzansi into world leadership

South Africa has a new world champ in the form of 148kg former Cheetahs rugby player Rayno Nel.

Hendrik Hancke Senior reporter
Harvest of goodwill: Two farmers' passion is stronger than skin colour

The future of farming in South Africa is in good hands if Lehlohonolo Phakoe and Daneman Smit are anything to go by

Hendrik Hancke Senior reporter
Devil's ransom: kidnappers use horror rape videos to extort victims' families

Criminals behind South Africa’s kidnap plague send families graphic videos of their loved ones to speed up ransom payments

Hendrik Hancke Senior reporter
‘Afrikaner refugee’ denied genocide in same month he applied to flee to US

English-speaking Errol Langton who ‘worked and owned a business in IT for 30 years’ says he ‘identifies as an Afrikaner’

Hendrik Hancke Senior reporter
A middle-class trek to Trumpville

The white South Africans in the first party of ‘refugees’ are a motley bunch with one unfortunate thing in common

Hendrik Hancke Senior reporter
Proteas star Rassie’s father loses battle with cancer

The Proteas batsman took to social media with a poignant farewell message