Officials from South African oil and chemicals group Sasol and representatives from three major trade unions on Monday agreed to the establishment of an occupational health and safety charter. "The parties agreed that safety is the first priority at all Sasol operations," Sasol said in a statement.
World number six gold miner Harmony Gold remains "absolutely" committed to completing its bid for rival Gold Fields and is awaiting the Competition Tribunal’s decision on the proposed merger of the two entities, Harmony chief executive Bernard Swanepoel said on Monday afternoon.
Three years of renovation have transformed the Japanese prime minister’s residence from a crumbling, vermin-invested pile into a state-of-the-art eco home, it was revealed on Monday. Junichiro Koizumi finally had somewhere to call home when his refurbished four-storey official residence was unveiled before members of the Cabinet and former prime ministers.
Health experts fighting the killer Marburg virus in northern Angola said on Monday they were facing denial from families who are refusing to send their sick to hospitals or are taking them out of the city, worsening the risk of contamination. Isolation of victims is the only way to slow the spread of the disease, for which there are no drugs or vaccine.
John Bolton, President George Bush’s nominee as the next United States ambassador to the United Nations, was accused on Monday of seeking to dismiss government intelligence analysts he thought were not hawkish enough on Cuba. The allegations were presented by Senate Democrats who are hoping to block Bolton’s nomination.
United States President George Bush on Monday delivered an unusually stern public warning to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon against plans to expand Jewish settlement blocs in the West Bank. ”I told the prime minister of my concern that Israel not undertake any activity that contravenes road map obligations or prejudices final status negotiations,” Bush told reporters.
Andrea Dworkin, the radical feminist activist and writer best known for her campaigns against pornography and her love of outsized dungarees, has died at her home in Washington DC. The author of more than 13 works of fiction, non-fiction and poetry, Dworkin died peacefully in her sleep early on Saturday morning after a long battle with illness.
As he ponders the future of the free world, the fate of social security or the state of the brush on his Crawford ranch, President George Bush can turn to one source for solace: his iPod. The Bush iPod contains just 250 songs, from Joni Mitchell’s (You’re So Square) Baby, I Don’t Care to the straight ahead country blues of Stevie Ray Vaughn’s The House Is Rockin’.
The mother of a boy who reached a multimillion-dollar settlement with Michael Jackson in the 1990s told on Monday how the singer was ”sobbing and crying, shaking and trembling” when she said he could not share her son’s bed. ”He said, ‘You don’t trust me? We’re a family… [The boy] is having fun.”’
The field of health care is not all about doctors and nurses in white lab coats. These days, there are many career options aimed at maintaining and improving peoples general well-being.