A coalition government is emerging in South Africa for the first time in the country’s history following parliamentary elections. With just under 52% of the votes counted, the ruling African National Congress (ANC) party had 41.93% of the total on Friday morning, according to the National Electoral Commission (IEC). The preliminary result means a large-scale loss of around 15 percentage points for the ruling party, which secured 57.5% of the vote in the last parliamentary elections held in 2019. If the former party of anti-apartheid campaigner Nelson Mandela remains below the 50% mark, as is n…