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Will the rabbit be removed from the Nelson Mandela sculpture?
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Settled on 03/28/2014 21:13 Settled by
kruijsWill appeals by tweeters to #savetherabbit fall on bronze ears? Will a suggestion by the animal rights charity Peta to adopt it be adopted? "We would be honoured," Peta says, "to use the bronze rabbit, the same animal who proudly leaps across Peta's logo, to honour Mandela's vision of a more peaceful, kinder world." Mr Tambo has said only that it might "end up in the garden near Mandela".
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-26784398
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When Nelson Mandela's sculpture was unveiled at the seat of government in Pretoria after his burial last month, no one noticed one small detail: a bronze rabbit nestled in his right ear.
The Department of Arts and Culture has ordered the removal of the rabbit in order to restore the dignity of the 30-foot bronze-plated sculpture of South Africa's first black president.
The rabbit, reminiscent of a Disney character, was secretly added by the artists, Ruhan Janse Van Vuuren and Andre Prinsloo, in lieu of a signature. It was also a comment on the tight deadline to complete the job, according to comments from Prinsloo to the Beeld newspaper; the Afrikaans word haas means both rabbit and haste.
They cheekily added the "small trademark" after the department denied them permission to add their signatures to the sculpture on the trouser leg of the figure, according to Beeld.
http://www.latimes.com/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-mandela-rabbit-statue-20140122,0,1364859.story
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