TOM EATON | Mandela Day can be celebrated for different reasons — you can even make one up
The Mandela Effect has been muddied by time and reinvented by historic translation
17 July 2023 - 21:00
In 2009, as millions of people watched Morgan Freeman play Nelson Mandela in Clint Eastwood’s Invictus, a sizeable number of those people tried to figure out how Mandela could have been involved in the 1995 Rugby World Cup when they so clearly remembered him dying in custody in the 1980s...
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