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In the late 1980s, when President De Klerk set about demolishing apartheid in South Africa and laying the foundations for parliamentary democracy, the country was rocked by black-on-black violence. The book examines the startling claim, made by director of the South African Institute of Race Relations, that this climate of violence had partly been caused by activities of a section of the Church which had been radicalised to the extent that it had developed a South African version of liberation theology which sanctioned revolutionary violence. Moreover, this section of the Church had been funded almost entirely from outside South Africa by European and North American church organisations and aid agencies. The book calls for the Churches to return to preaching the true Gospel of Jesus Christ and working for genuine reconciliation.