Goodbye Bafana

Il racconto della storia di James Gregory, secondino del carcere di Robben Island e convinto sostenitore dell'apartheid, che si occupò della sorveglianza di Nelson Mandela. Dal momento del primo incontro con il leader, la vita dell'uomo e le sue radicate convinzioni mutarono profondamente.

The young revolutionary Nelson Mandela is arrested, and it is the task of censor James Gregory to watch him. He has long since moved to South Africa with the family for his work in the prison of Robben Island, and slowly he clashes with the politics and racist culture of his countrymen and the people of his own race. Gregory begins to express hatred for South African apartheid. In time, Gregory challenges his superiors, and seeks to improve Mandela's life until he is released from prison after twenty-seven years of imprisonment, and is elected president of South Africa.

Südafrika 1968 zur Zeit des Apartheid-Regimes. Der weiße Gefängniswärter Gregory soll Nelson Mandela bewachen und ausspionieren. Doch je mehr Zeit er mit ihm verbringt, desto näher kommen sich die beiden und Gregory beginnt seine rassistischen Vorurteile abzulegen. Gregory will verstehen, was die Schwarzen wollen und was wirklich in seiner Heimat Südafrika vor sich geht. Er besorgt sich heimlich die verbotene Freiheits-Charta.