The Africa Muslim Party is a South African Muslim political party. It was founded in 1994, with Gulam Sabdia as Chairman and Imtiaz Suleman as national leader, and competed in the 1994 elections with few (around 78,000) votes to account for (it had put up 60 candidates for the National Assembly and 25 for the Council of Provinces). It competed in the 1999 elections, but only in Western Cape province, achieving 9,513 votes from the single province; the next year, the AMP competed in elections for Cape Town metropolitan area and received 2 seats in the local legislature. After sitting out of the 2004 elections, the AMP competed again for the Cape Town Metro council in 2006, gaining 3 seats. After the 2006 local government elections, it joined the multi-party coalition led by Democratic Allia