Mugabe predicts a ‘huge victory’ in Zimbabwe election

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.

“We have never been losers, because we have always been a party of the people,” Mugabe yesterday told more than 10,000 supporters, cheering wildly as music blared in a field in a densely populated neighbourhood of Harare.

Opposition leaders are urging their supporters to go out in numbers tomorrow to show their discontent with years of declining incomes, soaring unemployment and rampant inflation.