Johannesburg

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 ...