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 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 ...

A man who appeared to provide sign language interpretation on stage for Nelson Mandela’s memorial service, attended by scores of heads of state, was a “fake,” the national director of the Deaf ...

India's President Pranab Mukherjee speaks at the podium as a sign language interpreter (R) punches the air beside him during a memorial service for late South African President Nelson Mandela at 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” ...

DAILY MAIL – The bogus sign language interpreter at the Nelson Mandela memorial service was among a group of people who burned two men to death for stealing a television in 2003, say a cousin and ...

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 ...

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 ...

The sign-language interpreter at Nelson Mandela's memorial service is being accused of making up his hand gestures by members of South Africa's deaf community, who say that the service was all but ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The sign language interpreter at Nelson Mandela's memorial has been called a "fake" by the deaf community.

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 ...