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
Opposition parties bringing their A-game, while vote is out about youth at the ...

Election observer Mbali Ntuli and others speak on the upcoming polls

Hendrik Hancke Senior reporter
Finding light in the darkness of Kliptown

Three decades after the birth of democracy and a stone's throw from where the Freedom Charter was written, nine disadvantaged children from Kliptown, ...

Hendrik Hancke Senior reporter
Former coach sues Tennis SA and minister of sport for ‘cancelling’ him

Tennis SA will "strongly defend" itself against a R7.5m lawsuit for alleged slander by a  former tennis coach.

Hendrik Hancke Senior reporter
Flu widespread in SA but keep calm and get your jab

South African doctors have had their hands full with runny noses, wheezing, fever and chest infections as the peak of a viral infection and the flu ...

Hendrik Hancke Senior reporter
HR manager accused of R1.5m fraud quotes Bible verse in her defence

Leigh Madurai has appeared in court of charges of financial wrongdoing at the Pietermaritzburg company where she works

Hendrik Hancke Senior reporter
'A warm hug from an old friend': expat back in South Africa to launch book on ...

'If you are brave enough to start your own business, you can be brave enough to emigrate,' says Johan Oldenburg

Hendrik Hancke Senior reporter
Man walks into bank with live barn owl as a deposit

Customers and staff at an Absa branch in Gauteng were dumbstruck when a man arrived and tried to open a bank account using a live barn owl as a ...

Hendrik Hancke Senior reporter
Alcohol-free fine dining becoming more of a (South African) thing and the chefs ...

Many people are making the conscious decision to move away from alcohol for health reasons but still want to enjoy interesting beverages - and ...

Hendrik Hancke Senior reporter
Work begins to stop Cradle of Humankind sewage leaks

Contractors now fixing disintegrating pump station that has been polluting World Heritage Site for years.

Hendrik Hancke Senior reporter
Roelf Meyer is not giving up on the great SA democracy story

Roelf Meyer, negotiating partner of Cyril Ramaphosa, is sad about happened to South Africa during the Zuma presidency