South Africa Mandela Event Translator Wasn’t a Professional
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The sign-language translator who stood near President Barack Obama and other world leaders at Nelson Mandela’s memorial service wasn’t a professional interpreter and told South African news organizations he suffers from schizophrenia.
“He can speak sign language with his peers, but he was not a professional,” Hendrietta Bogopane-Zulu, deputy minister of women, children and people with disabilities, told reporters in Johannesburg today.