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Made Ya Think (MYT) Episode 009 Show Notes
The Mandela Effect Isn’t What You Think — A South African’s “Boots on the Ground” Perspective
What if the Mandela Effect isn’t just a memory glitch — but a window into how narratives are manufactured?
In this episode of Made Ya Think, we talk with a guest who grew up in apartheid-era South Africa and witnessed censorship, state-controlled media, propaganda campaigns, and the psychological warfare that shaped how people understood Nelson Mandela, race, and power.
We unpack:
- Why many South Africans remember hearing Mandela died in prison
- How media censorship and perception management shaped public memory
- How “divide and conquer” narratives were engineered across race, language, and politics
- Why real “boots on the ground” stories rarely match the official version of history
- How the same playbook shows up today in geopolitics, culture wars, and media narratives
This is meme-driven philosophy meets lived experience — no sacred cows, no blind trust, just critical thinking applied to history, media, and belief systems.
NOTE: Wikipedia links provided for basic mainstream grammar and narratives… just some optional starting points for your own research.
- Ryan Tarboton
https://www.facebook.com/ryan.tarboton - South Africa (basic mainstream and geographic info)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provinces_of_South_Africa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_South_Africa - Nelson Mandela
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela - Winnie Mandela
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnie_Mandela - Nobel Peace Prize 1993
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1993/mandela/photo-gallery/?gallery_style=page#gallery-1 - African National Congress (ANC, Mandela’s party)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_National_Congress - uMkhonto weSizwe (paramilitary wing of ANC)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UMkhonto_weSizwe - Francis Galton
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Galton - “Inquiries into human faculty and its development” by Francis Galton, 1883
https://archive.org/details/inquiriesintohu00galt/page/n7/mode/2up - Apartheid
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apartheid - Dutch East India Company (VOC)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_East_India_Company - East India Company
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company - Afrikaans (language)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrikaans - 15-minute city
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15-minute_city - Rude boy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rude_boy - Zeitgeist The Movie (documentary)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpFYhoEYKy8&list=PLTE5QoC7dCG4dsDyrLX2azbieKBMuZ42c&index=2 - The Dollar Vigilante (with Jeff Berwick)
https://dollarvigilante.com/ - Grand Theft World (with Richard Grove)
https://grandtheftworld.com/ - The Corbett Report (with James Corbett)
https://corbettreport.com/ - What On Earth Is Happening (with Mark Passio)
https://www.whatonearthishappening.com/ - Sir Basil Zaharoff
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Zaharoff
B-Roll Sources
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- No Apartheid War – Troops Out of Alexandria
https://sahistory.org.za/article/state-emergency-1985
- No Apartheid War – Troops Out of Alexandria
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