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Dario Marianelli

Title: Goodbye Bafana (OST)

Label: Varese Sarabande

Cat No:VSD6811
Format:CD

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South Africa - 1968 Twenty-five million blacks are ruled by a minority of four million whites under the brutal Apartheid regime of the Nationalist Party Government. Black people have no vote, no land rights, no rights to freedom of movement, to own a business, to housing or education. Determined to retain power, whites ban all black opposition organizations, forcing their leaders into exile or 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 Mandela and his comrades on Robben Island. After all, Gregory speaks their language and can spy on them. However, the plan backfires. Through Mandela’s influence, Gregory’s allegiance gradually shifts from the racist government to the struggle for a free South Africa. Goodbye Bafana tracks the unlikely but profound relationship between these two men. Through their unique friendship, we witness not only Gregory’s growing awareness of man’s inhumanity to man, but South Africa’s evolution from Apartheid to a vibrant democracy.

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?

The powerfully evocative score for Goodbye Bafana was composed by Dario Marianelli, the Academy Award-nominated composer of Pride & Prejudice. It is a riveting, captivating and beautiful work

Track Listing for Goodbye Bafana (OST)
1 The Harbour
2 Prisoners
3 Journey to the Cape
4 A Father's Grief
5 Stick Fight
6 Forbidden
7 Chocolate
8 The Offer
9 The Wrong Side
10 Still In Prison
11 Threats
12 Lieutenant Gregory
13 The Strongest Ox
14 Letter From Mandela
15 A New South Africa
16 Manqoba

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