Goodbye Bafana: En filmanalyse

I recently enjoyed the movie Goodbye Bafana in my English class, and I was just as amused by the breathtaking plot, as I was frightened by the unpleasant truths it portrays. It shows the worst and most barbarous sides of the regime starting in 1968:

As the white prison officer Gregory, because of his knowledge to their local language, is hired to guard a group of black prisoners on the disreputable Robben Island, he has no idea of which consequences his job will have. Both for him, his family and for South Africa. With the task of censoring all letters arriving and departing he, unwillingly contributes with information to help make the murder of Nelson Mandela’s son look like an accident. Just one among other conspiracies against the ANC. Along with protests all over the world against his imprisonment, Gregory’s loyalty to the apartheid regime changes under the influence of the infamous prisoner. When Mandela is released under agreement of the new South African president, Gregory hands over a bracelet to Nelson, which was given to him by a native friend from his childhood. He tells Mandela that it will protect him, just as it protected himself, and also he says goodbye to both his former friend, Bafana, and to his new friend, Nelson.