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Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: Schmoff on December 11, 2013, 05:07:26 PM
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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/12/11/mandela-south-africa-deaf-fake/3985257/
PRETORIA, South Africa -- The sign language interpreter used at Tuesday's memorial service for Nelson Mandela, and whose image was broadcast around the world as he shared a stage with world leaders including President Obama, was being called a "fake" by the Deaf Federation of South Africa.
Bruno Druchen, the national director of the federation, sent this tweet as the event was taking place at FNB Stadium on the outskirts of Johannesburg, South Africa:
The Associated Press also reported the allegation Wednesday, saying that three sign language experts who watched the broadcast said the man was not signing in South African or American sign languages.
"It was horrible, an absolute circus, really really bad," Nicole Du Toit, an official sign language interpreter, told the AP. "Only he can understand those gestures."
USA TODAY was not able to independently confirm the allegations, which if proved true would be an enormous embarrassment to South African officials at a time when the nation is looking to celebrate the life and legacy of Nelson Mandela.
South Africa's government said it is preparing a statement.
Collins Chabane, one of South Africa's two presidency ministers, said the government is continuing to investigate the matter.
Many South Africans were unaware of the sign language controversy Wednesday. Rachel Kika, 47, a teacher from the northern cape was surpirsed.
"I would not think the government would put someone there who did not know what they were doing," she said. "It would be very disappointing. I hope they got the facts wrong. I don't know how that would happen when sign language is an official language."
Bronwen Wilson-Thomson, 50, was shocked such a thing would happen.
"It would be sad if true," she said. "It's not like they can't find people who know sign language."
She said a few years ago, a singer messed up the national anthem by singing it to a different tune during a cricket match. "I guess if we can have someone mess up the national anthem, we can have someone mess up the sign language," she said.
Watch excerpts from the interpreter signing here:
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Fitting.
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I LOL'd a lot watching the video. He looked like a first-base coach signaling the batter.
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Classic GetBigger move
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A fake messiah next to a fake interpreter at a memorial for a fake hero
(http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1544279.1386765359!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/south-africa-mandela-interpreter.jpg)
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Classic GetBigger move
That was getbigger Roosevelt Johnson.
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That was getbigger Roosevelt Johnson.
"They" all look the same to me.
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"They" all look the same to me.
;D
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the deaf have no say on this anyway
the guy moved his hands around with more style than pavarotti
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It's enrico palazzo!
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that's fucking awesome.
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African ingenuity on show for the world.
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Which one is B.O. ???
;D
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I think it's time in this enlightened era for us to reexamine how we respond to the black peoples of the world. I really starting to think bringing back ni99er might really help whip people back into self sufficiency.
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It's enrico palazzo!
lol
enrico palazzo
enrico palazzo
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Fitting.
Yes. Fake interpreter, fake memorial, fake image for Mandela, fake "leaders" .. a mirror image of ur society where nothing is as it seems.
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Who was the dude making gang-symbols next to Osama anyway?
Why don't they just contact him/find him and beat the truth out of him?
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It's enrico palazzo!
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. ;D ;D
Oh my god bringing up such great memories.
Can. Not. Stop. Laughing. :D
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Nice trolling. That was exactly what this bunch of cocksuckers deserved.
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You've got to admire the balls this guy has, standing beside some of the most powerful leaders of this world literally trolling them for 8h straight!!
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A fake messiah next to a fake interpreter at a memorial for a fake hero
(http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1544279.1386765359!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/south-africa-mandela-interpreter.jpg)
QFT
My friend is deaf and he wanted to know why the interpreter kept telling him to wash his dog and have a pancake.
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That's funny, pretty ballsy, got some pub out of it!
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No better than the guy who called in to Peter Jennings during OJ's famous low speed chase.
No better than the politicians lying to our faces...
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Best security teams available outside of Saudi and this imposter gets to stand next to them? Someone should get fired over this....just sayin
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He was talking about prawns and donkeys hahaha,imagine being deaf and reading what he`s saying and thinking "did he just call Obama a prawn".
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2522398/Mandela-memorial-sign-language-fake-blames-schizophrenia-nonsense-interpretation.html
I wanted him to break into the David Brent dance.
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He was talking about prawns and donkeys hahaha,imagine being deaf and reading what he`s saying and thinking "did he just call Obama a prawn".
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2522398/Mandela-memorial-sign-language-fake-blames-schizophrenia-nonsense-interpretation.html
I wanted him to break into the David Brent dance.
so a supposed sign language interpreter who possibly has schizophrenia was allowed to interpret at a funeral involving many of the world's leaders?
I bet Mandela probably is smiling right now...
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"Thamsanqa Jantjie, 34, who has been violent in the past and suffers from schizophrenia, said that his hallucinations began while he was interpreting and that he tried not to panic because there were 'armed policemen around me.'
He added that he was once hospitalized in a mental health facility for more than one year."
PMSL - solid background checks then!
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This guy was good at bluffing it,but not as good as Guy Goma on the BBC a couple of years ago,he was a taxi driver who turned up at the tv studio to pick up a fare,someone comes out looking for someone called Guy Kewney who worked for Apple,he hears the name Guy and puts his hand up,next thing he knows he`s on live tv,just watch his face at the start.
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This guy was good at bluffing it,but not as good as Guy Goma on the BBC a couple of years ago,he was a taxi driver who turned up at the tv studio to pick up a fare,someone comes out looking for someone called Guy Kewney who worked for Apple,he hears the name Guy and puts his hand up,next thing he knows he`s on live tv,just watch his face at the start.
LMAO!!!
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"very surprised,very surprised,good,good,very surprised" lol.
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This guy was good at bluffing it,but not as good as Guy Goma on the BBC a couple of years ago,he was a taxi driver who turned up at the tv studio to pick up a fare,someone comes out looking for someone called Guy Kewney who worked for Apple,he hears the name Guy and puts his hand up,next thing he knows he`s on live tv,just watch his face at the start.
not many things make me actually laugh out loud, this was the first in a long time.
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It's enrico palazzo!
Great reference! ;D
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The fake signer guy was once charged with murder and rape.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2523162/Schizophrenic-fake-Mandela-memorial-signer-charged-MURDER.html
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White man should completely leave, isolate and study Africa to see what it looks like in 50 years.
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White man should completely leave, isolate and study Africa to see what it looks like in 50 years.
Agreed
It was a mistake going there in the first place!
Imagine what would have happened if there were no colonies at all, and no imorted hebrews to other countries
Would we have Hip-Hop? Would KFC flourish? etc
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he was in the back and coulnd't hear. jesse was speaking.lol.
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This guy was good at bluffing it,but not as good as Guy Goma on the BBC a couple of years ago,he was a taxi driver who turned up at the tv studio to pick up a fare,someone comes out looking for someone called Guy Kewney who worked for Apple,he hears the name Guy and puts his hand up,next thing he knows he`s on live tv,just watch his face at the start.
LOL at the face at the start! :D
Guy Goma was waiting on a job interview at the BBC when a receptionist wandered in and asked for "Guy."
Of course, she was looking for Guy Kewney, who was going on air to speak about Apple and the Beatles suing each other...
Goma apparently thought this was part of his job interview, and managed to show some surprising restraint considering how completely irrelevant the interview questions for Supply Manager were getting."
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White man should completely leave, isolate and study Africa to see what it looks like in 50 years.
Italian & Spanish navy very easily can do it ;D
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They should hire Garrett Morris next time.
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this extremely embarrassment , and a black eye on that event.
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Guess the... ah, snap!
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Guess the... ah, snap!
many races could have had this happen :-\