Mandela's funeral arrangers are going to have some explaining to do.
According to sign language groups and experts around the world, the organisers of Nelson Mandela's funeral hired either a fake or unqualified sign language interpreter for the ceremony this week who was apparently 'waving his hands around but there was no meaning'.
David Buxton, the CEO of the British Deaf Association criticized the whole event, telling The Telegraph that the what happened on stage behind speakers was just 'childish hand gestures and clapping, it was as if [the interpreter] had never learn a word of sign language in his life. It was hours of complete nonsense. He is clearly a fraud who wanted to stand on stage with big and important people. It's quite audacious if you think about it.'
Judge for yourself in this comparison. The real question however should not be 'how could they let this happen?' but more so 'how the hell did they think they'd get away with it?'.
