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.

Zimbabwe Vice President Simon Muzenda, long a loyal aide of Robert Mugabe, has died, state radio reported. He was 81.

At least 30 student teachers were killed when the bus taking them home from a sporting event collided with a heavy truck, state radio said today.