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
Red tape ties boy, 10, to KZN after ‘mom’ moves to UK

South African court order recognising parental connection between boy and his guardian cuts no ice with UK government

Hendrik Hancke Senior reporter
Sprint prodigy Walaza's alma mater battles for funding

If Vorentoe High School doesn’t find a new sponsor by the end of October, the programme — which has been operating since 2000 — will fold

Hendrik Hancke Senior reporter
After 62 years legendary photographer Wessel Oosthuizen retires from rugby

Wessel Oosthuizen, who refuses to be remembered as ‘the Biden of rugby photographers’, took his final snaps at last weekend’s showdown at Ellis Park

Hendrik Hancke Senior reporter
Illegal miners extorting money from Mogale City dumpsite waste recyclers

Each member of a community of informal waste recyclers from Mogale City has to pay a gang of illegal miners R50 a week to operate at the local ...

Hendrik Hancke Senior reporter
Biker and family man’s death caused by pothole on Ekurhuleni road, high court ...

The high court has awarded the estate of Marius Botes R750,000 in damages after it found he died as a result of a motorcycle accident caused by a ...

Hendrik Hancke Senior reporter
Thembi Simelane’s bistro was ‘very quiet’

Justice minister Thembi Simelane's coffee shop in Sandton was “rarely busy” and “frequently closed early”.

Hendrik Hancke Senior reporter
HENDRIK HANCKE | Are we seeing a seismic shift to real unity?

Thirty years after the rise of our democratic state, we are still divided around the braai fires and cooking pots of Mzansi - but are things changing?

Hendrik Hancke Senior reporter
Emergency services in danger, both at home and away

Paramedics are increasingly being physically attacked by criminals while trying to save lives at the scene of an emergency.

Hendrik Hancke Senior reporter
Joburg buildings shake-up planned after deadly fire

Almost four months after the Khampepe Commission released a damning report on the role Johannesburg authorities played in the deadly blaze in the ...

Hendrik Hancke Senior reporter
IN PICS | ‘Nothing is for free except this love’: department of agriculture ...

Gauteng pet owners encouraged to attend free vaccination programme