On December 12 2013 05:49 KwarK wrote: It's in poor taste but it takes some balls to blag an interpreter job thinking it's an easy paycheck, then get up on stage in front of the world media and actually do it convincingly for the entire event.
Unfortunately, this is the state of our country. Many job post's are either left vacant for years (with a "temporary" stand-in employee taking the post) or unqualified individuals are appointed the job due to Black Economic Empowerment. Sad thing is, it doesn't seem like it's going to change any time soon here :/
It's a pretty big embarrassment.
I wonder what was going through this guy's head to think he was not going to get caught.
On December 12 2013 05:57 Incognoto wrote: there's no balls in deceit lol. what a poor sense of balls
RIP Mandela.
If I'd accepted a position as a sign language interpreter without knowing sign language and then was required to translate at Mandela's funeral I'd have not shown up for work that day. The job would have been over either way so why show up. But that guy, he gets up on stage and he does it, even though he doesn't know sign language, even though he's certainly going to lose his job. He gets up there and he pretends to know sign language in front of the world.
On December 12 2013 05:57 Incognoto wrote: there's no balls in deceit lol. what a poor sense of balls
RIP Mandela.
Could you imagine being on a stage in front of thousands upon thousands of people and know that you have no fucking idea what your doing? You have to be absolutely shameless to be able to get up and actually do that knowing full well your going to get fired.
On December 12 2013 05:49 KwarK wrote: It's in poor taste but it takes some balls to blag an interpreter job thinking it's an easy paycheck, then get up on stage in front of the world media and actually do it convincingly for the entire event.
Unfortunately, this is the state of our country. Many job post's are either left vacant for years (with a "temporary" stand-in employee taking the post) or unqualified individuals are appointed the job due to Black Economic Empowerment. Sad thing is, it doesn't seem like it's going to change any time soon here :/
It's a pretty big embarrassment.
I wonder what was going through this guy's head to think he was not going to get caught.
to be honest, in some cases (not sure about this one thoug) the individuals don't actually realise that they are not qualified. I've seen this first hand in the Engineering field - people accept a somewhat technical post when its clear he doesn't understand one bit of work or subject matter at hand.
Concerts have people filming them through mobiles, the selfy is ubiquitous, obnoxious as it is. I don't mind politicians being chastised for falling below a certain standard, but not when it's the standard society at large has deemed acceptable
Taken out of context. It's an old Apartheid song sung by the anti apartheid activist ppl (don't know what they were called). Also the group that posted that on youtube are the worst of the worst of the Afrikaner people (read: redneck almost KKK racists trying to undermine what we've been trying to work to the past 20 years) and makes me ashamed to share the same culture as them.
As for the communist ties the ANC had, I really don't think you had a choice back in the Cold War era. Especially when communism preached for racial equality.
"The man also did sign interpretation at an event last year that was attended by South African President Jacob Zuma, Druchen said. At that appearance, a deaf person in the audience videotaped the event and gave it to the federation for the deaf, which analyzed the video, prepared a report about it and a submitted a formal complaint to the ANC, Druchen said.
In their complaint, the federation suggested that the man should take the five years of training needed to become a qualified sign language interpreter in South Africa. But the ANC never responded, Druchen said."
Gold, pure gold. This guy had been going around for years probably doing 'interpretations' and in that time he couldn't be arsed to learn more than three signs. A chimpanzee can learn sign language in that time frame.
HAHAHAHAHA oh my god that dude truly has balls of steel. Stoneface while doing it.
Biggest scam of the century. Cant even imagine what went through his head, when he got offered the job to do the memorial job for Mandela. He must have gone underground by now lol, cant imagine why they would let him get away with it.
HAHAHAHAHA oh my god that dude truly has balls of steel. Stoneface while doing it.
Biggest scam of the century. Cant even imagine what went through his head, when he got offered the job to do the memorial job for Mandela. He must have gone underground by now lol, cant imagine why they would let him get away with it.
It's just shows how corrupted the ANC has become, and it's a sad symbol to have at the memorial of Mandela.
edit: lol so apparently he is blaming that on schizophrenia and says that he was seeing angels during the ceremony... sure that's going to reassure every chief of state that went close to him!
HAHAHAHAHA oh my god that dude truly has balls of steel. Stoneface while doing it.
Biggest scam of the century. Cant even imagine what went through his head, when he got offered the job to do the memorial job for Mandela. He must have gone underground by now lol, cant imagine why they would let him get away with it.
So many heads of state standing next to a guy nobody knows. What the hell is the CIA even doing, i doubt they would have to dig very deep to find out a guy standing next to their president isn't what he says he is. Watched the event live, seemed like people were trolling Mandela. Every 10min the crowed had to be told to calm down, people singing/dancing with vuvuzelas at a funeral being broadcasted around the world, people drunk, Obama talking about himself more than Mandela, taking selfies, no security check for people coming into a stadium were high-ranking foreign dignitaries are in open view, South African president repeatedly booed in front of the whole world. Best thing that happened was the handshake between Raul Castro and Obama, but meh, seeing pictures of Obama next to the translator with the translated caption "I have a drone" underneath, hehe.
Does anyone think the fake sign language guy bares a striking resemblance to the cab driver that the BBC mistook for a computer expert and interview live on the air?
Maybe it's the same guy that just travels around the world getting himself into all kinds of hijinks
On December 06 2013 09:53 Zealos wrote: This probably isn't a good time to ask, but I'm seeing lots of comments about it. Was this guy in any way a terrorist? I love him, and believe he is one the greatest people to live, but was he in some way involved in terrorist activity?
Sorry if this is too disrespectful, I'll remove it if that is the case.
why would you think your comment is disrespectful? you say you love him and he is one of the greatest people to live… don't get much better than that
to say that he was a terrorist- or not is a bit tricky. back in the day the situation for blacks in sa was teeerrible- way worse than for example in the us. the white regime would enforce its ideals/laws/principles with violence… so what kinda happened is that the police would just beat up- or straight up kill the back people who tried to bring about changes (even peaceful demonstrants). and ofcourse, since the whites would even kill the ones triying to change, the reaction of the blacks got more and more raidcal as well. perhaps the worst single event was the massacre at sharperwill where 69 unarmed protestors were killed by the police. as a result the "Umkhonto we Sizwe" (spear of the nation) was founded, of which mr. Mandela was the leader of that organization. the idea was basically that against that kind of behavior only violence would be an adequate answer. so what happend was, that as a leader of the umkhonto we sizwe, mr. Mandela did prepare plans for attacks on the authorities (his handwriting was identified). however, one might say you can only turn the other cheek so many times… so you decide- his people were mistreated and even massacered. he wanted to do something about it, going as far as (maybe?) neccessary. does that make him a terrorist?
On December 06 2013 09:53 Zealos wrote: This probably isn't a good time to ask, but I'm seeing lots of comments about it. Was this guy in any way a terrorist? I love him, and believe he is one the greatest people to live, but was he in some way involved in terrorist activity?
Sorry if this is too disrespectful, I'll remove it if that is the case.
why would you think your comment is disrespectful? you say you love him and he is one of the greatest people to live… don't get much better than that
to say that he was a terrorist- or not is a bit tricky. back in the day the situation for blacks in sa was teeerrible- way worse than for example in the us. the white regime would enforce its ideals/laws/principles with violence… so what kinda happened is that the police would just beat up- or straight up kill the back people who tried to bring about changes (even peaceful demonstrants). and ofcourse, since the whites would even kill the ones triying to change, the reaction of the blacks got more and more raidcal as well. perhaps the worst single event was the massacre at sharperwill where 69 unarmed protestors were killed by the police. as a result the "Umkhonto we Sizwe" (spear of the nation) was founded, of which mr. Mandela was the leader of that organization. the idea was basically that against that kind of behavior only violence would be an adequate answer. so what happend was, that as a leader of the umkhonto we sizwe, mr. Mandela did prepare plans for attacks on the authorities (his handwriting was identified). however, one might say you can only turn the other cheek so many times… so you decide- his people were mistreated and even massacered. he wanted to do something about it, going as far as (maybe?) neccessary. does that make him a terrorist?
Although I agree with you, you're exaggerating a bit there. I do think that the situation for black people were worse than in America, but not way worse. AFAIK Apartheid was not violently enforced, or not initially atleast. Only when there were revolts starting did it become violent. For example the Sharpeville incident that you mentioned, was quite similar to the situation as that of the mine revolts 2 years ago: + Show Spoiler +
The police were called in at Sharpeville to contain the protests. Things got out of hand and apparently things escalated when one policeman lost his nerve and started firing.
That all being said Apartheid was obviously a horrible thing and I'm glad that it ended. Mandela was (in the eyes of the people and government at the time) a terrorist, but also a freedom fighter in the eyes of the "non-white" people.
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