Orcas prey on great white sharks in South African waters:
Orcas prey on great white sharks in South African waters:
In this photo taken Wednesday May 3, 2017 and supplied by Marine Dynamics, a great white shark is autopsied on a beach in Gansbaai, South Africa. The formidable shark is just another meal to orca whales, which hunt in groups and can enjoy a diverse diet of seals, whales and a host of other marine species.
Kenya/South Africa: KPL Pursue New TV Deal, Mull Action Against SuperSport:
The Kenyan Premier League are consulting with their Spanish partners, La Liga, regarding the private packaging and selling of the local league's broadcast rights. At the same time, KPL have approached their legal team concerning SuperSport's abrupt termination of their multi-million broadcast rights sponsorship deal last month with a view of seeking redress in a court of law.
Darren Scott joins OFM:
Well-known veteran radio presenter Darren Scott will be joining the OFM family from Monday, 3 July as the host of the brand-new afternoon drive show, Just Plain Drive on OFM. Scott will be replacing popular host of the Afternoon Delight, AndrA© Kunz, who is relocating with his family to Johannesburg.
Nedbank suffering in weaker South African economy, says Old Mutual:
Old Mutual issued an update on the performance of its South Africa banking unit Nedbank Group for the three months to 31 March on Thursday, saying the firm's managed operations continued to produce a “solid performance” during the period. The FTSE 100 firm said that, in a difficult socio political and macroeconomic environment, overall client activity and revenue growth at Nedbank was slower than expected, but that was partially offset by a better-than-expected credit loss experience.
Investec Full-Year Profit Jumps 15% to Beat Analyst Estimates 39 minutes ago:
Investec Plc , owner of a bank and money manager in South Africa and the U.K., posted full-year earnings that beat analyst estimates as assets under management and lending jumped. Net income for the 12 months ended March 31 climbed to 487.1 million pounds from 423.1 million pounds a year earlier, the London and Johannesburg-based lender said in a statement on Thursday.
Did this human species coexist with our ancestors?:
Fossil remains of Homo naledi found in a South African cave might be the first evidence of another species of hominin coexisting with the first humans in Africa. This skull, part of a skeleton that scientists have named Neo, was found in the Lesedi Chamber of the Rising Star Cave system in South Africa.
Zuma Risks Showdown With Own Party in South Africa Power Play:
After months of attacks by opposition parties, labor unions and the courts, South African President Jacob Zuma now appears to be on a collision course with a more dangerous adversary: his own ruling African National Congress.
UPDATE 1-Steinhoff says to spin off African retail business:
May 17 South African retail group Steinhoff on Wednesday said it was kicking off a process to separately list its African retail businesses on the Johannesburg stock exchange which it said would avoid those assets being undervalued. The proposed listing is the latest move by billionaire Christo Wiese to bring more of his African retail assets under one roof to create a shopping giant.
Bodies of 25 Illegal Miners Recovered from Abandoned South African Gold Shaft:
A suspected illegal miner climbs out of a ventilation shaft used to access an abandoned gold shaft in Benoni, east of Johannesburg, Feb. 17, 2014. Police recovered 25 bodies, believed to be those of illegal miners, from a disused Harmony Gold mine shaft, near an area where 76 illegal miners died in 2009 in what was one of South Africa's worst mining disasters.
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