ake interpreter mandela A sign language interpreter is accused of making "meaningless gestures" as millions watched the Nelson Mandela memorial service.
South Africa's deaf federation has confirmed that an interpreter using sign language during the Mandela memorial was a "fake".
Concerns over the male interpreter had been raised by deaf people watching the service at Johannesburg's FNB Stadium on Tuesday.
Bruno Druchen, national director of the Deaf Federation of South Africa, said the unidentified man who was on stage alongside world leaders including US President Barack Obama, "was moving his hands around but there was no meaning in what he used his hands for".
South African parliament member Wilma Newhoudt, a member of the ruling party, also said the man communicated nothing with his hand and arm movement.
Both Mr Druchen and Ms Newhoudt are deaf.
Three sign language experts said the man was not signing in South African or American sign languages.
South African sign language covers all of the country's 11 official languages, according to the federation.
Nicole Du Toit, an official sign language interpreter who also watched the broadcast, said the man on stage was an "embarrassment".
She said: "It was horrible, an absolute circus, really really bad.
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Nelson Mandela, hero of South Africa, dies at 95
12 Dec 2013 06:59 #46
The man was a genuine hero of mine..
I have no hesitation in admitting my tears the day he was released.
Gandhi, Martin Luther King and Mandela changed this planet.
Cunts are changing it back.
You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.
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Nelson Mandela, hero of South Africa, dies at 95
12 Dec 2013 10:57 #47
Nelson Mandela is portrayed in the mainstream media as a peace-loving anti-apartheid revolutionary and philanthropist. But what is the truth about Nelson Mandela?
Correction: For decades, Mandela supported nationalization, but abandoned his plans after being informed of the negative effects they would likely engender.
60 percent of South Africans felt the country was better run under apartheid, with both blacks and whites rating the current government less trustworthy, more corrupt, less able to enforce the law and less able to deliver government services than its white predecessor.
Transparency International released its 2013 Global Corruption Barometer report. It found South Africa to be among the most corrupt countries in the world. According to its findings, an astounding 83 percent of South Africans believe that the police force is corrupt. And 36 percent of respondents admitted to paying at least one bribe to the police.
A 2010 Medical Research Foundation survey found that more than 37 percent of men admitted to raping at least one woman. Seven percent said they had participated in a gang rape.
59 murders, 145 rapes and 752 serious assaults out of its 42 million population. The new crime is the rape of babies; some AIDS-infected African men believe that having sex with a virgin is a cure. Twelve percent of South Africa's population is HIV-positive, but President Mbeki says that HIV cannot cause AIDS.
In response to growing violence, South Africa's minister of safety and security, Steve Tshwete, says: "We can't police this; there's nothing more we can do. South Africa's currency, the rand, has fallen about 70 percent since the African National Congress (ANC) came to power in 1994. Emigration from South Africa (mainly of skilled people) is now at its highest level ever."
The tragic fact of business is that ordinary Africans were better off under colonialism. Colonial masters never committed anything near the murder and genocide seen under black rule in Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Nigeria, Mozambique, and other countries, where millions of blacks have been slaughtered in unspeakable ways, which include: hacking to death, boiling in oil, setting on fire and dismemberment.
The National Bureau of Economic Research found that the average income of all races in South Africa dropped 40% between 1995 and 2000. The UN 2006 Human Development Report found that over the last 3 decades Africa has had a "virtual reversal" of human development; South Africa dropped 38 places on the Human Development Index since 1994. (UN Development Programme, 2007). The country of the world's first heart transplant (Christian Barnard, Dec., 1967), the Union of South Africa, is now the rape and murder capital of the world. [15]
At the start of the year 1900, the number of African South Africans was found to be 3,5-million according to the British colonial government census. By 1954, our African population had soared to 8,5-million — and by 1990, there were a full 35-million of us
in the decades prior to the official policy of apartheid, (which was started in 1948), the average life expectancy of African South Africans was only 38 years.
However, during the last decade of the apartheid era from 1948 to 1994, our average life expectancy had risen to 64 years — on a par with Europe's average life expectancy.
While China had lifted some 400,000 people out of poverty in the past 20 years, Nigeria had pushed 71 million people below the poverty line.
A United Nations report said that Africa was the only continent where poverty had increased in the past 20 years. South Africa's HDI figure was far higher in 1995, after nearly 50 years of apartheid, than it was in 2010 after 16 years of ANC rule. Moreover, the trend continues to be downward.
The man was a genuine hero of mine..
I have no hesitation in admitting my tears the day he was released.
Gandhi, Martin Luther King and Mandela changed this planet.
Cunts are changing it back.
All a lie. Rothschild funded tool who was used to cause further tension.
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Nelson Mandela, hero of South Africa, dies at 95
12 Dec 2013 11:16 #49
All a lie. Rothschild funded tool who was used to cause further tension.
Amazing how easily it is to get some followers to believe something that isn't true eh Shake, exactly as has been done with christinsanity ... I mean christianity.
I suppose the real test of character is how you react when the truth is presented to you and it runs contrary to your current beliefs. Of course, as it says in my signature ... You can't reason someone out of a position (read belief) they didn't reason themselves into.
You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.
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Nelson Mandela, hero of South Africa, dies at 95
12 Dec 2013 23:31 #52
I suppose the real test of character is how you react when the truth is presented to you and it runs contrary to your current beliefs.
In shakeys case, he acts like a cunt
Nice to see you around again hairy
Shake appears to be a 'real Christian' TM, and part of the baggage of that trip is re-presenting yourself as a cunt.
Hey, I had a shave a couple of Weeks ago ... was thinking of having another one yesterday, though I didn't get around to it, maybe later today, after a few more joints, you know, build up my immunity to conforming so that it doesn't become a habit.
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Nelson Mandela, hero of South Africa, dies at 95
13 Dec 2013 00:48 #54
If Shake was on here saying he was muslim/hindu/buddahist saying what he is saying would you all still be have having such a go at him?
I've noticed that on-line and in real life people seem to find it ok to rip the piss and dismiss of views of someone who says they are Christian yet they would not act in that way to people of other faiths
Shake as you know, I do not agree with your views however I fully respect the right for you to hold them
Re homosexuals though, are you not even slightly annoyed that the clergy in your Church practice this on a regular basis (often with male children) if the mantra is no man on man sex?
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Nelson Mandela, hero of South Africa, dies at 95
13 Dec 2013 01:38 #55
If Shake was on here saying he was muslim/hindu/buddahist saying what he is saying would you all still be have having such a go at him?
Absolutely.
'The Crucifixion of Truth', by Tony Bushby, page 166.
"Today he is called Mohammed (570-632), but his real name was Lothar Schmalfuss. Ancient Christian writings recorded a remarkable revelation about Mohammed's early religous life and revealed the true reason for the commencement of the Islamic faith. The reference is found in a book called 'Chronica Majora', a summary of world history from biblical Creation to the year of the author's death. It was written by Matthew Paris (d.1259), a pious Christian monk, described by the church 'as an historian who holds the first place among English chroniclers'. From his quaint specimen of Abbey records, the erudite Monk explaines how Mohammed started an 'impious religion': It is well known that Mohammed was once a cardinal, and became heretic because he failed to be elected pope. Also (later in life) having drunk to excess, he fell by the roadside, and in his condition was killed by swine. And for that reason, his followers abhor pork even unto this day."
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Nelson Mandela, hero of South Africa, dies at 95
13 Dec 2013 06:38 #57
If Shake was on here saying he was muslim/hindu/buddahist saying what he is saying would you all still be have having such a go at him?
I've noticed that on-line and in real life people seem to find it ok to rip the piss and dismiss of views of someone who says they are Christian yet they would not act in that way to people of other faiths
It's not really his saying he's Christian that pisses people off at all, Dawn. To be fair, I thought that was obvious. It's the bigotry crap, wielded in the name of Christianity. If it were wielded in the name of any other religion, do you seriously think it would receive a different reaction here?
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Nelson Mandela, hero of South Africa, dies at 95
13 Dec 2013 06:50 #58
I was hoping giving him that veeerrrryyyy long Rothschild vid might have kept him off the forum and given him a chance to sober up.
I had followed most of the goings on here. I just have this horrible nagging feeling that maybe we have banned a victim of sexual abuse.....but hey ho, wtf do I know.
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Nelson Mandela, hero of South Africa, dies at 95
13 Dec 2013 07:10 #59
Lets say you're right jane.
Being a victim of abuse doesn't mean you can go around making veiled threats and using a forum to essentially try to make some innocent folk feel bad.
"laws are unenforceable if the majority break them."-humanspirit,
"avoid the concept of an ambassador for truth altogether"-gilly.
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Nelson Mandela, hero of South Africa, dies at 95
13 Dec 2013 07:31 #60
No it doesn't I agree.
But I have helped people who have been victims of sexual abuse that would make your stomach churn.....literally.
Like I said, I am only speculating, but there was too much 'between the lines' that triggered my radar.
I have also helped many people with addiction problems....and his vitriol just didn't sit in the same paradigms.
Being a victim of abuse doesn't mean you can go around making veiled threats and using a forum to essentially try to make some innocent folk feel bad.
Unfortunately this is exactly what does happen when a victim is booze fuelled.
Anyway, what's done is done.
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