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A video still from Nelson Mandela's memorial service shows Thamsanqa Jantjie on the right. The fake sign language interpreter at last week's Nelson Mandela memorial was reportedly among a group ...
Bruno Druchen, national director for the Deaf Federation of South Africa, said the interpreter was a "fake." The interpreter, who has not yet been identified, ...
There, alongside President Barack Obama Tuesday at Nelson Mandela’s memorial ceremony in a widely-shared photograph (no, not that one or this one) is the man who stole a show attended by scor… ...
Unbeknownst to law enforcement officials giving an update at a news conference about recent killings in Seminole Heights, Florida, a woman was acting as an interpreter for the hearing impaired and ...
JOHANNESBURG — A man who provided sign language interpretation on stage for Nelson Mandela’s memorial service, attended by scores of heads of state, was a “fake,” the national dir… ...
Unbeknownst to law enforcement officials giving an update at a news conference about recent killings in Seminole Heights, Florida, a woman was acting as an interpreter for the hearing impaired and ...
Unbeknownst to law enforcement officials giving an update at a news conference about recent killings in Seminole Heights, Florida, a woman was acting as an interpreter for the hearing impaired and ...
The memorial service for Nelson Mandela featured a sign language interpreter. Now, the country's leading organization for the deaf is accusing the interpreter of being a fake. Norah O'Donnell reports.
As a man stood next to President Obama and other world leaders at Tuesday's memorial service for Nelson Mandela he only pretended to do sign language, many in the deaf community say.
The Limping Chicken, a U.K. website that focuses on news involving the deaf community, posted a video showing both the "fake" and a sign language interpreter who many TV viewers saw in a small box ...
The sign-language interpreter on stage at Nelson Mandela's globally broadcast memorial service was a faker who was waving his arms around meaninglessly, advocates for the deaf said Wednesday.
There's outrage among many in the deaf community over the appearance on stage Tuesday of a man who they say was only pretending to do sign language interpretation as President Obama and other world ...