Overview

The African Transformation Movement (ATM) is a South African political party formed to transform South Africa to a better society that upholds and lives by the values of Peace, Ubuntu, Transformation, Servant Leadership, and Accountability. ATM is the coming together of religious groups, kingdoms, ordinary citizens of this beautiful country with an objective of transforming the country so all those who live in it enjoy a high quality of life. This is only possible if we are mentally transformed as the citizens of the country to take an active stand against the injustices of the day, express our dissatisfaction in a peaceful manner and embrace our African ways and values. The Political Ideology of the ATM is Humanism in general and African Humanism in particular, and because of the realities of our country, we subscribe to a Mixed Economy that is redistributive and empowering in nature. Our philosophical understanding behind the Humanism ideology is that: “There is Only One God and Only One Race, the Human Race”. Both Robert Mangaliso Subukwe and Nelson Rholihlahla Mandela subscribed to this philosophy and political ideology. As a people of the world, we must come to the point where we realise that the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race, and that we are all members of it. There is no "they", but only "us". We are part of a large fellowship called Human Race. We cannot separate ourselves from one another. We are part of the same sea of love, one indivisible divine mind of God. Sentiments that glorify Humanity know no racial distinction. This understanding is also derived from the African wisdom of “Ubuntu” (humanity of the human beings), which the fathers of Africa’s independence, namely, Leopold Senghor, Nkwameh Krumah, Julius Nyerere and Kenneth Kaunda, used it to give the African belief and value system a socio-political expression, namely African Socialism.