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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.

A boat, part of the Global Sumud Flotilla aiming to reach Gaza and break Israel's naval blockade, sails off Koufonisi islet, Greece, September 26, 2025. The South African government has again called for safe passage for the vessel filled with activists and reaffirmed its support for the flotilla.

Lamola, Dirco reaffirm support for Gaza flotilla amid drone attack

The department of international relations and co-operation (Dirco) has called for safe passage for the Global Sumud Flotilla which is carrying activists from several countries, including six South Africans, to deliver much-needed…

  • Hendrik Hancke
The South African Social Security Agency and Postbank are embroiled in a tense dispute over the cancellation of a long-standing agreement that made Postbank Sassa’s primary disburser of grants.

Postbank worried about 3-million social grant beneficiaries after Sassa ends deal

Embattled Postbank says while it will respect a high court ruling throwing out its urgent application seeking to force Sassa to uphold a service agreement it is concerned about the impact this will have on three-million social grant…

  • Hendrik Hancke
The illegal firearms that were confiscated in a Western Cape police raid earlier this month.

SAPS vs Ian Cameron over hitmen 'set free and illegal weapons'

Police say all weapons confiscated in a raid in Bellville in the Western Cape, including AK-47 rifles, pistols and ammunition, are accounted for despite a contrary claim by DA MP Ian Cameron

  • Hendrik Hancke
The inside of a walk-in fridge Mpumalanga farmer Pieter Grobler claimed was used to store pig food. Two of Grobler's family members, Mark and Sonnet Lombard, are joining him in the dock after they were arrested by the Hawks this week.

Two family members of 'rotten food farmer' arrested by Hawks

Two family members will join Mpumalanga farmer Pieter Grobler, who is accused of repackaging and selling expired and rotten food for human consumption, in court after they were arrested by the Hawks this week.

  • Hendrik Hancke
Former police detective Riana Nel, who was allegedly killed by her partner, Mauritz Rheeder, also a former cop..

AfriForum to assist in investigation into ex-cop's alleged murder by life partner

A retired police detective has turned to AfriForum’s private prosecution unit for assistance as he fears the SAPS has not gathered all available evidence in the murder case involving his daughter, who was also a former police detective.

  • Hendrik Hancke
Suspected cable thieves were arrested in Bhisho.

Kidnap victim rescued and two arrests made

The police national anti-kidnapping task team rescued a 30-year-old kidnap victim on Friday and arrested two suspects during an operation in Germiston.

  • Hendrik Hancke

Crime intelligence head Lt-Gen Dumisani Khumalo arrested at airport

SAPS divisional commissioner for crime intelligence Lt-Gen Dumisani Khumalo was arrested at OR Tambo Airport on Thursday, allegedly on charges relating to corruption.

  • Hendrik Hancke
Suspected cable thieves were arrested in Bhisho.

Five suspects killed in two separate shoot-outs with police in KZN

Five suspects were killed in two separate shoot-outs with police in Inanda in KwaZulu-Natal on Friday.

  • Hendrik Hancke
The scene in Fourways where 40-year-old Mauro Mucambe Junior, a wanted Mozambican kidnapper, was shot dead.

Wanted Mozambican kidnapper killed by cops in Fourways

In yet another success story for the national anti-kidnapping task team, a wanted Mozambican kidnapper was shot dead this week during a tracing operation in Johannesburg.

  • Hendrik Hancke
A Greenacres jewellery store was robbed on Tuesday afternoon

Two soldiers stabbed to death at Mpumalanga base after altercation

Two soldiers were stabbed to death during the early hours of Saturday at the Macadamia Military Base near Komatipoort in Mpumalanga, allegedly after a confrontation with a colleague.

  • Hendrik Hancke
6,853 confiscated firearms were involved in murder cases in the past five years. Stock photo.

Three suspected gang members arrested for possession of firearms and ammo in KZN

Three suspected gangsters were arrested in KwaZulu-Natal after they were found in possession of firearms and ammunition.

  • Hendrik Hancke
An armed robber shot a 55-year-old paramedic in the abdomen and a 58-year-old paramedic in the chest at the EMS base in the KwaMashu community health centre. Stock photo.

Gqeberha's R75 road claims two more lives

Police have opened a culpable homicide case after two people died in a head-on collision in Gqeberha.

  • Hendrik Hancke
The bodies of constables Cebekhulu Linda, 24, Boipelo Senoge, 20 and Keamogetswe Buys, 24, have been retrieved.

Police need assistance finding three missing Free State cops

Police have asked the public to be on the lookout for three police constables who have been missing since Wednesday.

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People across the country took to the streets protesting against gender-based violence after allegations that the girl known as Cwecwe was raped. File photo.

Mchunu apologises to principal implicated as suspect in rape of child

Police minister Senzo Mchunu has written a letter to Gerrie Nel of AfriForum’s private prosecution unit to apologise to Jaco Pieters, the principal of Bergview College, for implicating him as a possible suspect in the rape of a minor that…

  • Hendrik Hancke
An injured man being rescued from the wreckage after the Rovos Rail train, carrying 47 guests, collided head-on with a Zimbabwean freight train.

Rovos Rail train derailed after collision with freight train in Zimbabwe

The luxurious Rovos Rail train was derailed in Zimbabwe after colliding with a freight train on Friday.

  • Hendrik Hancke