Mandela memorial interpreter "made no sense"

Dec 11, 2013, 05:19 PM

Controversy has broken out over the sign language interpretation at President Mandela's memorial service on Tuesday. Members of the deaf community complained that the interpreter was using arbitrary hand gestures that made no sense. Cara Loening is the director of Sign Language Education and Development in Cape Town and she has told Focus on Africa that the interpreter made "no sense" and was just "waving his arms in the air".