{"id":16577,"date":"2014-10-27T09:16:34","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T07:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=16577"},"modified":"2014-10-27T09:16:34","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T07:16:34","slug":"ebola-translator-steals-the-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=16577","title":{"rendered":"Ebola translator steals the show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is not the first time that has sign language translator has grabbed the headlines at a major event.<\/p>\n<p>While an Ebola news conference should have been grabbing the headlines, a signer stole the show. The signer has now gone viral on social media, with some even questioning whether he was a legitimate interpreter.<\/p>\n<p>The media conference was headed by New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and health officials, who were giving updates on the city\u2019s first case of Ebola on Friday. However, as the officials continued, attention started to be diverted to a man sitting on the very left of the platform.<a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/signing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-16578\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/signing-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"signing\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At Nelson Madela\u2019s funeral in December 2013, South African Thamsanqa Jantjie appeared on stage and proceeded to conduct fake sign language gestures during the dignitaries\u2019 speeches &#8211; including by US President Barack Obama &#8211; in an event that was watched by 95,000 mourners at Soccer City stadium in Johannesburg and millions around the world.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There was zero percent accuracy. He couldn&#8217;t even get the basics right. He couldn&#8217;t even say thank you,&#8221; Delphin Hlungwane, a South African sign language interpreter at DeafSA, told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Jantjie later claimed he was suffering a schizophrenic episode at the Mandela memorial service.<\/p>\n<p>South African broadcaster, eNCA investigations, discovered that Jantjie, who is receiving treatment for his schizophrenia, has also faced rape (1994), theft (1995), housebreaking (1997), malicious damage to property (1998), murder, attempted murder and kidnapping (2003) charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is not the first time that has sign language translator has grabbed the headlines at a major event. While an Ebola news conference should have been grabbing the headlines, a signer stole the show. The signer has now gone viral on social media, with some even questioning whether he was a legitimate interpreter. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=16577\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ebola translator steals the show&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2961,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[593,10391,9128,560,885,10390,10392],"class_list":["post-16577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","tag-barack-obama","tag-deaf","tag-ebola","tag-nelson-mandela","tag-new-york","tag-sigh-language","tag-sign-language-interpreter"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2961"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16579,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16577\/revisions\/16579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}