Mugabe predicts 'mountainous victory'

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.

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