Tony Blair raised the stakes in the campaign to disarm Saddam Hussein by warning British voters that they face a direct threat from weapons of mass destruction which will find their way into the hands of terrorist groups unless firm action is taken now.

Ariel Sharon drew slight comfort from a new round of opinion polls yesterday that showed his dramatically curtailed television broadcast last week had stemmed the flow of votes from his party ahead of this month’s general election.

Retired former Citizen editor MA ”Johnny” Johnson died in his sleep at his Highlands North home in Johannesburg early on Wednesday morning.

At least there is one honest man in government. I couldn’t help noticing that while his colleagues were prancing around on the stage at the ruling party congress Minister Dullah Omar stood next to his chair in dignified silence.

It has taken forty-three years to finally earn a Springbok blazer, but 68-year-old Goolam Abed is not perturbed, and believes it’s ”wonderful” that he finally got the recognition he deserved.

Police on Monday said that Finnish fugitive Sven Peter Fryckman, suspected of running guns to Iraq, was extradited on December 12 on charges of fraud.