South Africa’s governing African National Congress (ANC) party has failed to secure an absolute majority for the first time in 30 years, winning 159 of the 400 seats in the parliamentary elections, the electoral authorities confirmed on Sunday. The ANC, which emerged from a liberation movement that fought the white minority apartheid government, has dominated South African politics since the first democratic elections in 1994. But the result means a massive loss of power for the party of former anti-apartheid fighter Nelson Mandela, now with 71 fewer seats. It is the first time in the country’…