To add to the debacle of the president taking selfies with blond Danish ladies at the Mandela funeral, we now learn that the guy doing sign language on stage was a total fake.

A fake sign language interpreter took to the stage during a mass memorial for anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela, gesticulating gibberish before a global audience of millions and outraging deaf people across the world.  I like how the impostor bobs from side to side, like he is listening to his own music.



DeafSA, South Africa's leading deaf association, condemned the presence of the unknown man at the memorial, which was attended by President Jacob Zuma and scores of world leaders including U.S. President Barack Obama.

While dignitaries were addressing the crowd in the 95,000-seat Soccer City stadium, the young, suited man with an official security pass round his neck produced a series of hand signals that experts said meant absolutely nothing.

Besides the bizarre twist to an event that also saw Zuma booed and jeered, the man's presence on the stage within yards of Obama and Brazil's Dilma Rousseff raised awkward security questions.

I suppose we should expect no less from an event organized by the ANC, but one wonders why they thought that they would get away with this, given that is was an event seen worldwide?  Just another example of stunning arrogance and stupidity at the highest levels.