Freedoom? Typo on Cyclists' Mandela T-shirts a 'PR Hiccup'
Nelson Mandela had a way with words, but not quite like this. Cyclists traversing Johannesburg in the former South African president's honor on Sunday wore T-shirts with one of his many inspiring quotations, along with a glaring typographical error in the word "freedom."
The T-shirt read: "The purpose of freedoom is to create it for others."
Some 5,000 T-shirts with the typo were made for the 35-kilometre "Freedom Ride," which passed landmarks in downtown Johannesburg and the city's Soweto area, organizer Hugh Fraser said Tuesday. The spelling mistake was "a bit of a PR hiccup" but the cycling event was ...
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