Robert Mugabe has threatened to seize British businesses in retaliation for Western economic sanctions targeting him and his supporters over alleged human rights abuses in Zimbabwe.

Zimbabweans waited in long lines today to cast ballots in parliamentary elections that President Robert Mugabe hopes will prove once and for all the legitimacy of a regime critics say is increasingly isolated and repressive.

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.

One of Zimbabwe’s most outspoken church leaders called for a peaceful popular uprising to oust President Robert Mugabe in an interview with a South African newspaper today.