No. Your eyes do not deceive you. This is an actual billboard paid for by an Indian businessman to honor the late South African leader. It reads:
"We should be proud that we were part of an era when they lived," reads the Tamil-language sign posted in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu.
A likely explanation is that Freeman's pic popped up in Google Image Search, since he portrayed Nelson Mandela in 2009's Invictus.

Oh dear.

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