A DEFIANT Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe predicted a ” huge, mountainous victory” for his party on the eve of a general election that critics have portrayed as a referendum on his increasingly isolated and repressive regime.

A defiant President Robert Mugabe predicted a “a huge, mountainous victory” for his party on the eve of a general election that critics have portrayed as a referendum on his increasingly isolated and repressive regime.

Twenty Zimbabwean church pastors were arrested today after they marched to police headquarters in Harare to hand in a petition protesting at state-orchestrated political violence.