ARIZE South Africa is a youth-led political party born out of the nation’s urgent need to rescue itself from forces holding it back. This party intends to establish party standards that stand for Christian principles. It is no different from what ATM stands for: African Transformation Movement (ATM) is a faith-based national Political party with a humanist political ideology. Their philosophical understanding of humanism is that there is only one God, one race, the human race.
Are they coming with something different? Political-wise, yes, they are, but the question is, who are they Christianising because 85.3% of South Africans are Christians. Colonizers have spread Christianity enough for them to want to Christianize South Africans again. Another thing that should make South Africans curious and think deeply about this political party's mandate is the sudden interest in Christianising the country. What is wrong? Why do they believe that this country needs Jesus to be rescued from the calamities, corruption, bad leadership, and all?
Jesus was introduced to us as Africans as our savior and peacemaker, but South Africa is getting worse by the day. What is it that Christianity can do for this country when the majority of its population are Christians, or maybe Jesus wants South Africans at total capacity, and the remaining 14,7 % is the one that causes disruption and delays Jesus to bring order in this country fully? In my opinion, these political parties are trying to adopt a governing system that works for other countries like the United Arab Emirates, which is governed by the principles of the religion Islam. With no disputes, other countries whose leadership and political systems are rooted in their religion are very affluent and developed. But is Christianity for us? Because our leadership is rooted in it already, even so, the country is slowly dying. So, reviving or putting forward a Christian religion is not a good strategy for this crisis the country is facing.
Perhaps South Africa must find their own beliefs that can indeed make a difference rather than adopting foreign beliefs to solve South African problems. The fact that these political parties believe that good leadership is rooted in religious principles attests to the fact that the power of each nation lies in its belief system. As King Shaka Zulu said, each nation is made powerful by its rituals (Kunene, 19790). Therefore, we must accept that this is the dawn of African restoration.
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