Allison Swank Just as Nelson Mandela went underground as the Black Pimpernel in 1961 to evade the white apartheid government, in this TV ad for a popular South African fast food chain, this white Afrikaner family goes underground in 1994 to escape Mandela’s black government–what? About these ads
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