Thamsanqa Jantjie

So Thamsanqa Jantjie was crazy after all?! Folks were definitely wondering if he was crazy after Nelson Mandela‘s memorial sing language incident — where he was actually not signing, but making false movements. After the incident, Jantjie was quietly put in a mental institution. He explained what happened to him the day of Mandela’s memorial […]

12/20/13- Nope, not Suge Knight, not Adrien Broner, not even Phil Robertson is this week’s “Bama of the Week”. Find out why not after you listen.

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The bogus sign language interpreter at last week’s Nelson Mandela memorial service was among a group of people who accosted two men found with a stolen television and burned them to death by setting fire to tires placed around their necks, one of the interpreter’s cousins and three of his friends told […]

12/13/13- Sorry, Thamsanqa Jantjie a.k.a. the fake interpreter you are the “Bama of the Week”!  Find out why after you listen!

12/12/13- Huggy Lowdown goes in on Thamsanqa Jantjie aka the “fake interpreter.”

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The man accused of faking sign interpretation while standing alongside world leaders like U.S. President Barack Obama at Nelson Mandela‘s memorial service said Thursday he saw “angels” at the event, has been violent in the past and suffers from schizophrenia. Thamsanqa Jantjie said in a 45-minute interview with The Associated Press that […]