The year is 2012, the newsreader has just announced the death of Nelson Mandela, tributes begin to flood in from around the world - man of peace, saviour of South Africa, uniter of black and white, friend of the poor.

The year is 2022, a small budget movie appears called The Prisoner - it's about a man arrested in an African country for terrorism.  It shows a man who breaks while in prison, he buys his release by agreeing to renounce violence.  He is a sort of Uncle Tom character.  He becomes President but does nothing to remove the economic privileges of the whites because he's secretly done a deal with them to get out of prison and to get elected while ordinary blacks are no better off.

Not many people see the movie.  Those that do realise it's about Nelson Mandela.  They shake their heads and mutter "I never realised that's what really happened".  Slowly the myth takes hold among people who have never heard of the movie.  Then a "serious scholar" writes a book - "Mandela, the Last White President".  On the cover is a photograph of Mandela shaking hands and smiling at de Klerk.

Some people disagree - they point to all the positive comments made about Mandela during his lifetime and when he died but these are dismissed as ill-informed and propagandist.  Some historians talk about the need to see his actions in the context of the time and the movement from white rule.  This is dismissed with "he should have done more, much more, he was in a unique position to effect change and he did nothing while protected in his presidential palace".  A museum opens to mark the victims of racism and apartheid.  A section on Mandela repeats the lies.  Now whenever he's mentioned on news programmes, it's always with the add-on "considered by many to have betrayed his own people".

The white supremicist organisation which financed and produced the movie continues.