🔒Unlike other new political entrants, the ATM had the ready made support of 500 churches and more than 20 small parties, which had previously contested local government elections but were not contesting the national and provincial polls.
The African Transformation Movement, which boasts a huge following across the country’s messianic churches, is a proponent of populist policies such as the death penalty.
Although much of the early attention drawn by the fledgling party has focused on its association with businessman-cum-civil servant Mzwanele ‘Jimmy’ Manyi and former president Jacob Zuma, the ATM is the creation of the South African Council of Messianic Churches in Christ , a body of predominantly African churches that have historically fallen outside of the South African Council of Churches.
And although its formative stages were linked to unhappiness over the removal of Zuma as president, one analyst has cautioned that the ATM’s leaders have “unfettered ambitions” of their own.
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