THE almost two million members of South Africa’s Apostolic and Zionist churches will support the Inkatha Freedom Party at next week’s election, the churches’ council said on Thursday. The churces have chosen to back the IFP on June 2 after the African National Congress “snubbed us,” said president of the Council for Apostolic and Zion Churches in Southern Africa Archbishop Mzilikazi Masiya. The grouping is one of the largest church bodies in South Africa, where about 80% of the population claim to be Christians. Masiya said the Zulu-based IFP had agreed to include several church members, including himself, in its provincial and national election lists. “We looked around for a political home for more than a year … and ultimately we found it within the IFP,” said the archbishop.