In the movie Goodbye Bafana, we follow James Gregory. James lives in South Africa with his wife Gloria and their three children (Brett, Chris, and Natasha). Gregory’s wife is a very conservative woman, who teaches her kids that the terrible treatment the blacks get is not to be questioned, as it is God's will. Gregory himself used to live on a small South African farm, with his good friend Bafana who by the way, is a black native. But Gregory had to say goodbye when he moved to live in the city (Here Bafana gives him a rabbit's foot for good luck).
When Gregory moved to the city, he became radicalized, causing him to hate blacks, or “kaffers” as he calls them.
The South African Secret Service finds out about his knowledge of the natives, and that he is fluent in Xhosa. They decide to hire Gregory as the officer of the Robben Island censorship department. Here they instruct him to monitor all visits with the inmates and go through their letters, especially the prisoner known as Nelson Mandela. And through a couple of conversations with him, he finds out that his real name is Madiba. In one of Gregory’s first important shifts, he is instructed to monitor a conversation between Mandela and his wife Winnie. Gregory learns that Nelson’s son has acquired a drivers license but ends the conversation when Nelson and Winnie start talking about the African National Congress in Xhosa (James tells his supervisor about the license).
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