ANC gets 'overwhelming mandate' from South African voters South Africans have voted resoundingly to extend the ANC's 20-year rule, ignoring leadership scandals and economic malaise in a wholesale display of loyalty to the party once led by Nelson Mandela. As President Jacob Zuma met officials at he national results centre, opposition DA party leader Helen Zille said she remains "the only viable opposition" in South Africa. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES