According to the blog, “the structure of his hand and body movements didn’t seem to change no matter what the speaker was saying.”
Deaf activist Alison Bryan spotted what was going on:
@SarangaComics fake interpreter on stage at the Nelson Mandela Memorial Service. Just some random person flapping arms about. See tweets.
— Alison Bryan (@Deaf) December 10, 2013@gretchenmarie5 the Vice President of WFD (who lives in South Africa) could not understand him. As fellow SASL terps. I've retweeted them.
— Alison Bryan (@Deaf) December 10, 2013@braamjordaan @charlie_swin do you know who it is? To me this is fraud and oppression coming from the ANC. International media cd milk it.
Advertisement— Alison Bryan (@Deaf) December 10, 2013She wasn’t the only one…
Fake sign language interpreter at Mandela service. “@newhoudt: ANC linked interpreter cannot sign at all, he's making up signs. […]”
— Ellen de Bruin (@EllendeBruin) December 10, 2013.@BarackObama That Sign language interpreter next to you at Mandela memorial is a fake. How he ever got that close to you, I don't know.
— Tony Barlow (@Saltbar) December 10, 2013Not cool MT @Limping_Chicken: The sign language interpreter during the #Mandela service was making up the signs http://t.co/1hRuA2lXD8”
— Mike Mantin (@mikemantin) December 10, 2013Just read that there is a fake Sign language interpreter at Nelson Mandela's memorial. I bet I can Sign better than him & I'm only level 2!
— Amy Simmons (@AmySimmonsUoB) December 10, 2013The blog ended its post by saying, “Above all I feel sorry for Deaf South Africans, who should have had amazing access to the service, with an interpreter there on screen, but got this instead.”
[The Limping Chicken]
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