Mandela Funeral sign language interpreter was a fake

[NewYorkExpress]

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2013/12/11/anger-over-hoax-mandela-memorial-sign-language-interpretor

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[danny]

Both sad and hilarious at the same time.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Both sad and hilarious at the same time.

So the Secret Service let's some shmoe stand next to the President (and other Presidents) and he's a fake?  LOL.

[Hifly]

Yet again the ANC proves itself to be a laughing stock.

[Cassius]

Yet again the ANC proves itself to be a laughing stock.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Yet again the ANC proves itself to be a laughing stock.

Knowing you guys, I'm pretty sure you're using ANC as a code word.

[Hifly]

Yet again the ANC proves itself to be a laughing stock.

Knowing you guys, I'm pretty sure you're using ANC as a code word.

Yes, as a code word for the African National Congress.

[Hatman 🍁]

While under Mandela, the ANC was a FF organization, it's now corrupt and useless.

[Hash]

South Africa is a failed state run by incompetent fools who should let 'competent'/'civilized' people run the country amirite??!!!

[Cassius]

South Africa is a failed state run by incompetent fools who should let 'competent'/'civilized' people run the country amirite??!!!

It's certainly not achieving its potential, and yes, the ANC are incompetent fools.

[Lief 🗽]

It's certainly not achieving its potential

Well you can blame a violent authoritarian regime which oppressed 80% of the country for decades for that.

[Hifly]

It's certainly not achieving its potential

Well you can blame a violent authoritarian regime which oppressed 80% of the country for decades for that.

That regime has been gone for 20 years. The ANC has been in power ever since.

[Lief 🗽]

It's certainly not achieving its potential

Well you can blame a violent authoritarian regime which oppressed 80% of the country for decades for that.

That regime has been gone for 20 years. The ANC has been in power ever since.

What's your point?

[Cassius]

It's certainly not achieving its potential

Well you can blame a violent authoritarian regime which oppressed 80% of the country for decades for that.

This is a slight oversimplification, given that under apartheid and particularly in the years that followed it, South Africa usually enjoyed quite handsome rates of growth.


Edit:
More to the point, black literacy rates also increased quite substantially during the apartheid era. No one is denying that apartheid wasn't a nice system, but the ANC cannot be absolved of its failures in government by waving the bloody shirt of apartheid.

[Hifly]

It's certainly not achieving its potential

Well you can blame a violent authoritarian regime which oppressed 80% of the country for decades for that.

That regime has been gone for 20 years. The ANC has been in power ever since.

What's your point?

Why is the no longer existent National Party responsible for the ANC's corruption and mismanagement which have indeed played a significant role in hindering South Africa from reaching achievable goals within the past few years? If it is, what about the South African United Party?

[Antonio the Sixth]

Here we go, let the Apartheid apologism begin. I was wondering when it would start.

[Oakvale]

Are to we to assume that the blicks were better off under apartheid?

[Cassius]

Here we go, let the Apartheid apologism begin. I was wondering when it would start.

I have stated some facts in response to the assertion that all of South Africa's present problems are the result of apartheid, which is, of course, manifestly wrong.

[Hash]

Good to see that the Mandela mourning was just a contrived act and that the usual white apologism about apartheid and how South Africa/Rhodesia was way better off when the civilized white men were in charge can resume.

[freefair]

Nope- The IFP or COPE would be doing a much better job right now, I'm sure.

[Hash]

The IFP [...] would be doing a much better job right now, I'm sure.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Here we go, let the Apartheid apologism begin. I was wondering when it would start.

Two wrongs don't make a right.  While things certainly could have been worse after the end of apartheid (just look at Zimbabwe for a most relevant example), it would not have been too difficult for the ANC to have done better, even with the same level of corruption.  A kleptocracy does not have to be inept if the thieves keep in mind that one can steal more for a longer period of time by making causing the pot of money they are skimming from to grow.

[Sol]

It's certainly not achieving its potential

Well you can blame a violent authoritarian regime which oppressed 80% of the country for decades for that.

That regime has been gone for 20 years. The ANC has been in power ever since.

What's your point?

Why is the no longer existent National Party responsible for the ANC's corruption and mismanagement which have indeed played a significant role in hindering South Africa from reaching achievable goals within the past few years? If it is, what about the South African United Party?

The echoes of Apartheid continue to cause problems in modern day South Africa. History is kind of hard to break away from- Look at the U.S., where a significant proportion of problems are because of the slavery (and the artificial caste system imposed as justification for such enslavement).

[Hatman 🍁]

South Africa is a failed state run by incompetent fools who should let 'competent'/'civilized' people run the country amirite??!!!

You support the ANC?

[Stand With Israel. Crush Hamas]

I doubt this would have even happened under Mbeki. Zuma has really run the party into the ground.