Will it come as a shock to people when they find out the deaf sign language interpreter at the Nelson Mandela funeral was a fake?
Why should it?    Everything about the funeral, and more importantly about the representative ruse around Mandela’s passing, was a collection of global progressives inserting their own desires and scribed pontifications onto something which in reality does not exist.

So why would the interpreter for the deaf audience be real,  everything around the narrative was fake.
SOUTH AFRICA – 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.

Shame on this male so called interpreter on the stage. What is he signing? He knows that the deaf cannot vocally boo him off. Shame on him !

— wilma newhoudt (@newhoudt) December 10, 2013

The interpreter was watched by millions as he stood beside speakers at the event including President Barack Obama.
Hundreds of people took to social media to express their anger at the interpreter’s gestures, and several deaf groups confirmed his signing did not reflect the comments being made to honor the anti-apartheid icon.
[…]  David Buxton, chief executive of the British Deaf Association, said in an email that “the gentleman is a total fake.”
“He has no real clue about sign language and has obviously upset the deaf community of South Africa as we have received hundreds of angry messages via Facebook and Twitter,” said Buxton, who was watching the ceremony with his South African-born wife.
Buxton called on the South African authorities to “name and shame that gentleman.” He said the same interpreter had provided sign language for South African President Jacob Zuma’s speech at a military event last year.
The South African government said in a statement that it was “looking into this matter but has not been able to conclude this inquiry due to the demanding schedule” organizing the state funeral.  (continue reading)