The Mandela effect is named after Nelson Mandela a revolutionary South African politician who was born on July 18th 1918 in the village of Mvezo in the Cape Province.

“曼德拉效应”出自尼尔逊·曼德拉，他是南非的改革政治家，1918年7月18日生于开普省的一个叫姆维索的村庄。

That year saw so little rainfall, it became the driest year ever on record for the whole Western Cape province since modern record-keeping began back in 1933 and was potentially the driest year for the province in centuries.

那一年降雨量非常少，成为自 1933 年现代记录保存开始以来整个西开普省有史以来最干旱的一年，也可能是该省几个世纪以来最干旱的一年。