When after the First World War the first mass vaccination campaign began in South Africa, the AFM (the Mission of the Apostolic Faith), a Pentecostal denomination founded in 1908 (but legally recognized in 1913) by the American Pentecostal preacher John Graham Lake (together with the collaborator Thomas Hezmalhach), who knew William Seymour personally and had been to the Azusa Street Apostolic Faith Mission in Los Angeles, was an important member of the National Anti Vaccination League (see AFM Executive Committee Minutes 1915-20, entry for 28 July 1920; in Barry Morton, Engenas Lekganyane and the Early ZCC: An Unauthorized History, 2018, p. 96,219).