Huge turnout in South Africa poll

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Vote counting in now under way after a huge turnout in South Africa's general election left officials struggling with long queues at polling stations.

The ANC is expected to win but could lose its two-thirds majority to challenges from a new party, the Congress of the People and the long-standing opposition, the Democratic Alliance.

John Simpson reports from Johannesburg.

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