After the recent discussion of the Mandela Effect I was reminded of this. Take the symbolism for what you will, the official explanation always seemed ridiculous to me.
>South Africa's government has ordered sculptors to remove a bronze rabbit they hid in the ear of a Nelson Mandela statue, unveiled after the former president's death last month.
>It wanted to "restore dignity back to the statue", a spokesman told the BBC.
>The sculptors reportedly inserted the rabbit as a trademark signature and to denote the haste with which they had to complete the statue.
>Rabbit in the Afrikaans language is "haas", which also means haste.
>"We don't think it's appropriate because Nelson Mandela never had a rabbit on his ear," Mogomotsi Mogodiri, the spokesman for the Department of Arts and Culture, told the BBC's Focus on Africa radio programme.
After the recent discussion of the Mandela Effect I was reminded of this. Take the symbolism for what you will, the official explanation always seemed ridiculous to me.
>>South Africa's government has ordered sculptors to remove a bronze rabbit they hid in the ear of a Nelson Mandela statue, unveiled after the former president's death last month.
>>It wanted to "restore dignity back to the statue", a spokesman told the BBC.
>>The sculptors reportedly inserted the rabbit as a trademark signature and to denote the haste with which they had to complete the statue.
>>Rabbit in the Afrikaans language is "haas", which also means haste.
>>"We don't think it's appropriate because Nelson Mandela never had a rabbit on his ear," Mogomotsi Mogodiri, the spokesman for the Department of Arts and Culture, told the BBC's Focus on Africa radio programme.
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