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Thamsanqa Jantjie, the man accused of “faking” sign language at Nelson Mandela’s memorial service, has appeared in a bizarre app advert.

Archive footage shows the ‘fake’ interpreter who signed at Nelson Mandela’s memorial working at previous ANC events

Deaf and sign language groups have reacted with some confusion after it transpired the sign language interpreter at Nelson Mandela’s memorial service was actually speaking total nonsense. Our signing experts have taken a look at some of the footage and translated what was actually said.