’It really is a huge insult’ -- Deaf SA

Johannesburg -- If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. The words of former president Nelson Mandela. But at his memorial service on Tuesday, the deaf community was short-changed by an apparently unqualified sign-language interpreter. Event organisers are now passing the buck as to who was responsible for hiring him.