Goodbye Bafana Quotes

  • Winnie Mandela: When I married you, I knew I was marrying the struggle.

  • Nelson Mandela: [in prison, to his visiting wife, speaking Xhosa; subtitles read] Tell him that all of us in here agree he should escalate the armed struggle. The country must become ungovernable.

  • Nelson Mandela: I have not touched my wife in twenty-one years.

  • James Gregory: These ideas you'd kill for?

    Nelson Mandela: These ideas I'd die for.

  • [last lines]

    Newscaster: Mr. Mandela, the man who has been in prison for nearly three decades, will be appearing in public for the first time any moment now... There is Mr. Mandela, Mr. Nelson Mandela, a free man, taking his first steps into a new South-Africa...

    James Gregory: [in front of TV, reading from the 'Freedom Charter'] "There shall be peace and friendship. And all who love their people and their country shall say, as we say here: These freedoms we will fight for, side by side, throughout our lives, until we have won our liberty."

    Newscaster: That is the man the world has been waiting to see, walking strongly, step by step further into freedom.

    Subtitle: Four years later, in 1994, Nelson Mandela became the first democratically elected president of South-Africa.

  • James Gregory: I grew up on a cattle farm in the Transkai. When you got no brothers to play with, you end up playing with the Kaffers.

Extended Reading
  • Erling 2022-04-15 09:01:07

    Persistence and renunciation of faith must involve sacrifice, sometimes even life, one's own or that of a loved one, and the same is true of self-redemption in life. (All the protagonists have the faces of Hollywood stars - Nicolas Cage, Sharon Stone, Denzel Washington)

  • Grady 2022-04-12 09:01:11

    Very smooth, not a single place is overdone