President Barack Obama looks down as he stands next to the sign language interpreter as he makes his speech at the memorial service for former South African president Nelson Mandela at the FNB Stadium ...

NBC NEWS — Deaf people watching the Nelson Mandela memorial were bemused and shocked by a “fake” sign language interpreter on stage whose gestures were unintelligible, activists said Wednesday. The ...

Wow. Did this really happen? A fake sign-language interpreter was onstage during Tuesday’s memorial service for Nelson Mandela. In the video, the woman in the left-corner box is doing the “real” ...

President Barack Obama looks down as he stands next to the sign language interpreter as he makes his speech at the memorial service for former South African president Nelson Mandela at the FNB Stadium ...

During the memorial service for beloved world figure Nelson Mandela on Tuesday (December 10), a sign language interpreter graced the stage near invited speakers. After a director for a South African ...

Some members of the deaf community took to Twitter to express outrage An interpreter who was seen by millions of television viewers worldwide translating Nelson Mandela's memorial service into sign ...

The sign language interpreter who gestured meaninglessly at the Nelson Mandela memorial in South Africa on Tuesday has faced charges of murder, rape, theft, breaking and entering, malicious damage to ...

JOHANNESBURG, Dec 12 (Reuters) - A South African sign language interpreter accused of gesticulating gibberish during a memorial to Nelson Mandela defended his "champion" performance on Thursday, but ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A South African deputy Cabinet minister says “a mistake happened” in the hiring of a sign language interpreter for the Nelson Mandela memorial service who experts say was signing ...

Updated: Dec. 12, 7:30 a.m. The sign language interpreter who outraged deaf people around the world with his nonsensical miming during the Nelson Mandela memorial service has blamed his actions on a ...

The sign language interpreter at Nelson Mandela’s memorial, who claimed he had schizophrenia after being accused of being an arm-flapping fraud, has been admitted to a psychiatric hospital. Thamsanqa ...