Mugabe predicts victory
29/02/2008 14:09  - (SA)  

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Harare - Zimbabwe's veteran President Robert Mugabe predicted victory on Friday in presidential and parliamentary polls next month as he launched the election manifesto of his ruling Zanu-PF party.

"We certainly are going to win," the 84-year-old leader told thousands of supporters at a rally in the capital Harare.

"We of Zanu-PF (Zimbabwe African National Union - Patriotic Front) have gathered here to mark the start, the official start of our march to another victory, another electoral victory."

Zimbabweans go to the polls on March 29 to elect a president, legislators, senators and councillors.

Mugabe is hoping to secure a sixth term of office as leader of the former British colony he has ruled since independence in 1980.

The elections are to take place against a backdrop of economic meltdown in Zimbabwe, which has an official inflation rate of more than 100 000% the highest in the world.

Zimbabwe's last elections, won by Mugabe in 2002, were dismissed as rigged by western observers and the opposition.

Mugabe is being challenged for the presidency by his former finance minister Simba Makoni, since expelled from the ruling party, and main opposition Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai.

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