South African artists Andre Prinsloo and Ruhan Janse van Vuuren erected a 9-meter tall monumental sculpture of Nelson Mandela in front of the Union Buildings--the buildings that house South Africa's national government in Pretoria.
Observers noticed that there appeared to be an object in Mandela's right ear. Upon closer examination, they found a bronze rabbit!
The artists confessed to putting it there. They explained that they were forbidden to add their signatures to the statue, so they placed the rabbit to serve that function.
They were working under a tough deadline and had to complete their work quickly, so they chose a rabbit. It's a pun: haas, the Afrikaans word for rabbit, also means "haste."
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