A good politician — as opposed to a dramatic revolutionary — is hard to find, but Nelson Mandela could safely be called one of the best living examples of that rare and precious category.
“Goodbye Bafana” highlights all the traits usually associated with Mandela’s name: incredible courage and inner strength, integrity and charisma, staunch leadership in the face of adversity. The film however, is not a Mandela biopic — rather, it’s based on the novel penned by his prison guard James Gregory.
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