Goodbye Bafana: brev fra James Gregory og Mandela-analyse

My name is James Gregory. I hope that you can remember me from our time together when we

were children. I really miss the time with you and all the funny things, we did together. Today I am

an old, man who have worked as Nelson Mandela´s prison guard in South Africa. I have two

children together with my lovely wife. The most spectacular thing I have done, was when I in 1968

was the officer in the prison Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela was a prisoner. It was a very

strange thing, because we almost should ill-treat black people, and I was thinking on you. I hope

that you have survived the apartheid in South Africa. Mandela was a very nice man, who were

fighting for a free South Africa and I really respect what he has done for all the people I South

Africa. Fortunately he is my good friend now. It is only because I treated him and his people well

in prison and I talked to him as a man and not as an animal. I am today a very proud man, who

knows that I did the right, when I helped Nelson with a few things in prison. After my job on