Zuma and Ace Magashule did not help start ATM party -Zungula

Following claims that the African Transformation Movement (ATM) political party was started with the help of Ace Magashule and former President Jacob Zuma, the party’s President Vuyolwethu Zungula says the claims are rubbish.

Zungula further went on to say that the allegations are not supported by evidence and views them as a ploy to stigmatise the ATM as a Zuma party.

“There is no evidence whatsoever, that’s one. Secondly, this affidavit drawn by Buyisile Ngqulwana, he withdrew the court application which was going to examine the affidavit.”

“A lot of people assume that once a person writes an affidavit, whatever is contained there is actually the truth. Now the fact that he withdrew his own application on the 11th hour clearly shows that there is something about the affidavit that he wrote”, said Ngqulwana.

Ngqulwana, head of the SA Council of Messianic Churches, filed an affidavit in May in support of an urgent electoral court application challenging the registration of the party.