AAAM, uMkhonto Wesizwe Party forge alliance ahead of the 2024 elections

The newly reformed uMkhonto Wesizwe Party is determined to strengthen its found alliance with the All African Alliance Movement (AAAM) in the upcoming national elections this year.  

During the AAAM press briefing, both parties announced their partnership on Friday, 7 January 2023, at June 16 Memorial, Soweto.

According to AAAM and uMkhonto Wesizwe, it is the objective of this partnership to integrate South African culture for self-sufficiency.

Keeping with their God-centered foundation, the proceedings started with worship and prayer. Different Pastors and Bishops from different denominations travelled from KZN, North West, Mpumalanga, Free State, Cape Town, Limpopo, Northern Cape and Gauteng and it’s regions.

Former State President Jacob Zuma, Chief Senator Archbishop Tseke, Secretary General Bishop KM Tebe, Treasurer General Archbishop MA Qwetha, and Founder of Umkhonto Wesizwe Jabulani Khumalo were among those in attendance.

According to the Secretary General of AAAM party Bishop Meshack Tebe, the self-sufficiency and revival charter for Africans should manifest and express the African philosophy of sustained development and self-retrieval.

“This must be the Charter that paves the way forward for indigenous African people to take action on their plights in communities, thus the raison d’être for AAAM: South Africa is the only nation where Africans can effectively advance and defend indigenous African interests.

To improve their living conditions, South Africa’s indigenous people must act cohesively and mobilize as
much as possible.,” said Bishop Bishop Meshack Tebe.

He further added that The African liberation philosophy has always included and will continue to include AAAM’s conception. African UBUNTU philosophy, founded on strong African value systems, is something they will actively promote from the beginning.

As a result, leaders from various religions, traditional authorities, intellectuals, and technocrats participated in the dialogue, debates, and deliberations two years ago about the future direction of the country.

Consequently, after these spirited meetings and prayers, the leaders agreed:

1. There was consensus that there is a significant distance between state power and African religious and cultural institutions.
2. Local and rural areas, cities, provinces, and the nation no longer hold “higher spiritual nd moral authority” above all else in their political, economic, and social freedoms.
3. The rise of various religious formations, in some cases with unfamiliar cults, has led to an increase in the invasion of ‘foreign demonic spiritual orders’. It has been revealed that the African National Congress and its Alliance partners have exhibited cancerous displays of corruption and maladministration. Throughout the mainstream news media and social media, discontent, anger, and disillusionment are prevalent, including sermons at churches, traditional gatherings, and local funeral rituals.
4. The public domain is increasingly dominated by conflict, public spats, and the increasing disintegration of family and community units.
5. There is a sustained increase in public commissions of inquiries, investigations, legal disputes, and forensic investigations. Our society is increasingly dragged into a sense of psychological siege and driven to fatigue and despair by false regimes that promise people a better life for all. However, they provide a better life for themselves and their connected cronies.

6. Through its diverse beliefs and practices, the church itself is riddled with contradictions. These contradictions include materialism, invasion by ‘external spirits’, and diminishing the influence of the elderly in leadership positions across denominations.
7. Society at large has suffered from institutional failures most notably in state- owned enterprises, where corruption has increased exponentially and remained unabated. Corruption has now manifested itself in almost all departments of government in tandem with some in the private sector. It is impossible to even trust the judges, as they have
   eloped into a state filled with errors. Decisions they make can plunge the country into anarchy – as in the July 2021 unrest.
8. Traditional authorities are pushed to the periphery of every concrete economic, political, and social decision-making platform for the people they lead, not by mere political affiliation but by God-ordained monarchy.

Zuma emphasized the importance of unity and starting over in order for us to be able to have a better future by educating people about South Africa’s history and telling us to fix whatever went wrong in the past. In his opinion, the church made the right decision to create a faith-based political party.

AAAM and Umkhonto Wesizwe aims to change the narrative and make South Africa a better place, they promise to practice The Batho Pele Principle as well as to put South African natives first. They also welcome any advances that provide adequate food, clothing, shelter, health care, childcare, and other basic rights.

However, they also believe that these will only be won on a national level when AAAM can address the political consequences of the triumph of corporate capitalism.

Their vision is to establish a society in which indigenous Africans are free from oppression, exploitation, and dispossession, so that they may take their rightful place in the world as a civilized society.

Therefore, for AAAM to attain its undertaking, the partnership with the Umkhonto Wesizwe Party is imperative for cultural unification, guiding the civilization of all South Africans toward a self-sufficient society.

As a result, AAAM wishes to make it known that this faith- and culture-based organization is fully united with the MK party. Additionally, they endorse and call for Zuma to run for president in the 2024 calendar elections.

The duo urges every South African to get involved in their distinct social inhabitation to this social transformation, be they public servants, domestic workers, youth formations and student movements, trade unions serving both the employed and the unemployed, and all civic and civil associations.