South Africa, Twenty-five million blacks are ruled by a minority of four million whites under the
brutal Apartheid regime. Determined to retain power, the whites ban all black opposition organisations, imprisoning them for life on Robben Island. James Gregory, a typical white Afrikaner, regards blacks as sub-human. Having grown up on a farm in the Transkei, he learned to speak Xhosa at an early age. This makes him an ideal choice to become the warder
in charge of Nelson Mandela and his comrades on Robben Island. Goodbye Bafana tracks the unlikely but profound relationship between these two men. The story, which documents how Mandela became the most inspirational political figure of the modern world, poses the questions: Who is the prisoner? And who sets whom free?