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
WATCH | Bikers to court after k-word kerfuffle

A violent, ongoing feud between two of South Africa’s biggest motorcycle clubs has degenerated into a racial war, with the MAC’S club finalising a ...

Hendrik Hancke Senior reporter
No birthday celebration for Sanral contractor whose kidnappers want R10m

Eight months before 38-year-old construction manager Victor Ngcobo was kidnapped near Gqeberha on Wednesday, his employers cancelled his 24-hour ...

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’