In the movie Goodbye Bafana, we follow James Gregory. James lives in South Africa with his spouse Gloria and their two children Brett and Natasha. Gregory’s wife is a very traditional woman, who teaches her kids that the terrible treatment the blacks get is not to be questioned, as it is God's intention. Gregory himself used to live on a tiny South African farm, with his good buddy Bafana who 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, creating him to hate blacks, or “kaffers” as he names them. The South African Secret Service finds out about his understanding of the natives, and that he is fluent in Xhosa.
They select to hire Gregory as the officer of the Robben Island censorship department. Here they command him to observe all visits with the inmates and go through their letters, mainly 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 major shifts, he is instructed to observe a conversation between Mandela and his wife Winnie. Gregory hears that Nelson’s son has received a driver's 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). Shortly after, Gregory is told to sneak a piece of a newspaper into Nelson’s cell which says that Nelson's son had been killed in a car collision.
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