Nelson Mandela had a way with words, but not quite like this.

Cyclists crossing Johannesburg in the former South African president's honour 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." Organiser Hugh Fraser said that 5,000 T-shirts with the typo were made for Sunday's 22-mile Freedom Ride, which passed landmarks in central Johannesburg and the city's Soweto area.

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