Cinema’s Treatment of the Apartheid Issue
Benson implies that most black South Africans would condemn the final scene in “A Dry White Season.”
That argument ignores both the mass support that black South Africans give the African National Congress, which pursues an armed struggle, and the tenets of liberation theology as developed in South Africa.
Indeed, Lindiwe Mabuza, the representative of the African National Congress to the United States, attended the Los Angeles premiere of “A Dry White Season” and said the film was authentic, moving and important.
NEVA SEIDMAN MAKGETLA
Associate Professor
University of Redlands
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