The Moment of Truth
When white missionaries converted black tribes in South Africa to Christianity 200 years ago, they created for their converts an abiding dilemma. Should black
Christians today put their trust in Christian forgiveness and peaceful negotiation, or does their belief in the rightness of overcoming apartheid justify militancy? This film explores that tension. The dilemma leads many black Christians to rebel against their Church's conservatism and look for a new form of faith. Some of them go back to their African tribal roots to mark their separation from 'white'
Christianity. How far should they go towards violent resistance? Or does Christian teaching on forgiveness forbid the overthrow of oppression?
Film editor RON TAYLOR
Research alita NAUGHTON Producer FRANCIS GERARD
Everyman editor JANE DRABBLE