ADVOCATE Moafrika Wa Maila wears many hats. He's not only lawyer, but is also a pastor and leader of the movement, Active African Christians United Movement (AACUM).
Maila said as a pastor he serves spiritually, as a lawyer he serve legally and as a politician, he serve administratively and all of these achieve to save humanity.
"I am three in one like a knife. I can cut, pierce and smear. I am an advocate by profession and a pastor by calling," he said.
Maila, who is originally from Hammanskraal, north of Tshwane, said the journey has always been in his blood and his family is the first pillar of strength. "It's not a comfortable space, but they understand the cause," he said.
He was part of Pan African Student Organisation in primary and secondary school, while he was part of Pan African Student Movement of Azania in university. "We believe Africa has to strive for unity and economic cooperation until we are one," he said.
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AACUM was born in November 2021 as a civic movement called Pastors Against Church Closure during the Covid-19 lockdown. In that month, pastors gathered at Pretoria Hotel in Tshwane for three days to decide the future of the movement.
Maila said the movement is based on Christian ethos and values. Everyone is welcome to join although the foundation came from the church.
"Our leaders are comprised of those who believe in the Christian faith from any kind of denomination. We have no specific Christian genre or category that we subscribe to as a movement," he said.
He said their opening in any gathering is prayer, sharing the word of God and singing a spiritual hymn. "We address political issues, state of affairs in our nation, the policy position of our movement and political ideological basis of our movement," he said.
Maila said the movement is ready to contest the 2024 national elections in all nine provinces.
"We are the only Christian political party that has a radical perspective on all issues that matter to ordinary South Africans like land, education, economy, minerals, infrastructure and many more," he said.
He said if they win, they will change property clause, which deals with the ownership of land in South Africa.
"Government must be the rightful owners of land and administrate it on behalf of the people. Our chances are we will influence who governs since South Africa is going into a national coalition government because there is no party that will have outright majority," he said.
Maila, who would love to be minister of education, promises South Africans a better and growing economy that will create opportunities for all age groups and all classes of people.
"Wealth is not shared equally in the country and I have a remedy for that of redistribution in all sectors of the economy," he said.
The movement's strength is in Free State, North West and Mpumalanga and a bit in Gauteng."Churches are backing us and Christians and non-Christians are supportive," he said.
At the moment the movement is busy helping victims of the cholera outbreak in Hammanskraal and helping bereaved families with legal services.
