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Zuma's party guns for ANC stronghold in South Africa vote

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An ANC supporter looks at a campaign meeting roll call in Philipstown, South Africa. [Marco Longari, AFP]

In a village nestled in the mountains of South Africa's hotly-contested Kwazulu-Natal province, former President Jacob Zuma's new party has campaigned relentlessly to win voters away from his old one, the ruling ANC.

Rival tents pitched by the two parties outside a local school serving as a polling station blasted party songs welcoming early voters they hoped to sway.

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