[lg policy] News item: 'Fake' sign language at Mandela's memorial

[Yael Peled]

"Ingrid Parkin, principal of the St. Vincent School for the Deaf in 
Johannesburg, said she has received complaints from the deaf community 
from Canada to China over his signing and described his movements as 
"like he's signing gibberish.""

Full story at 
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/nelson-mandela-memorial-sign-language-interpreter-was-a-fake-8997486.html

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