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Thamsanqa Dyantyi: "I see angels come into the stadium"

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The owners of the firm which supplied a "fake" sign language interpreter to the Mandela memorial event have vanished, a South African minister has said.

Hendrietta Bogopane-Zulu apologised to the deaf community for the poor quality of interpretation given by Thamsanqa Dyantyi from SA Interpreters.

"He is Xhosa speaking. The English was a bit too much for him," she said.

Mr Dyantyi himself has blamed his flawed interpretation on a schizophrenic episode.

In an interview with local media, Thamasanqa Jantjie said he had been hearing voices in his head on stage and expressed sadness at what had happened. But there are allegations that the ANC had been warned after a previous meeting that he was a fake and there are renewed demands for answers from the government.

He also admitted he has been violent in the past.


But the minister denied there was a security issue, saying he had been properly accredited.

Mr Mandela died last week at the age of 95 and will be buried on Sunday.

His body is currently lying in state in Pretoria, with thousands queuing to pay respects.




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VIDEO: Fake sign language interpretation at President Mandela's memorial service

 

 

There is controversy over the sign language interpretation at President Mandela's memorial service on Tuesday. The deaf community complained that the interpreter was making hand motions that made no sense what so ever.

 

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Cara Loening is the executive of Sign Language Education and Development in Cape Town and she has told Focus on Africa that the interpreter made "no sense" and was just "waving his arms in the air".


David Buxton, the CEO of the British Deaf Association criticized the whole event, telling The Telegraph that the what happened on stage behind speakers was just 'childish hand gestures and clapping, it was as if [the interpreter] had never learn a word of sign language in his life. It was hours of complete nonsense. He is clearly a fraud who wanted to stand on stage with big and important people. It's quite audacious if you think about it.'

Nigerian doctor and former diplomat, Dr Chukwuma Igbokwe in court for allegedly bullying and sexually harassing colleague.

Igbokwe grabbed a female colleague from behind and thrust himself towards her before exposing himself and suggesting she performed a sex act, a tribunal heard. Dr Chukwuma Igbokwe, 46, also asked the woman for sex on his desk, it has been claimed.


The former Consul to the UK of the Republic of Niger is accused of bullying and harassing his junior colleague in his role as director of St Luke’s Healthcare group.





Vanessa Turley, 42, was allegedly subjected to an ‘onslaught of sexual innuendo’ and verbal abuse when she worked with Igbokwe at a private hospital in Ebbw Vale, south Wales, between March 2008 and July 2010.

She told the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service how she quit her job and took legal action to stop Igbokwe when she realised she may not be his only victim.

‘It was just never ending with him,’ she said giving evidence.
‘I thought he’s got to stop this. People came to me and said it was happening to them. ‘I thought “when is this guy going to stop”. ‘The only person who had enough evidence to go forward was myself.’

Referred to as ‘Mrs A’ during the current proceedings, she told the panel she felt the police did not take her seriously when she complained, but was vindicated when she won an employment tribunal against her former bosses last year.

She said: ‘It was never about the money. It was about proving to people what he was like as a person and what he put me through.’

She added: ‘I was trying to stop him doing it to other females because in my eyes he had no respect at all no matter what your position in the company. It was a conquest.’


Igbokwe was not present or represented at a fitness to practise hearing in Manchester where he could be struck off the medical register if the string of misconduct allegations against him are proved.

One of the charges relates to a ‘Mayor’s ball’ held in his honour in his role as Niger’s Consul to the UK in November 2009 when he made a sexual innuendo towards her.
After the incident he then quizzed her in the tea room at St Luke’s about why she had told people what he had said, the hearing was told.

On another occasion, on April 9, 2010, Igbokwe is said to have called her into his office and held her hips from behind.
He then thrust himself against her, told her to sit down, exposed his privates and gestured to her to perform a sex act.

‘He touched me on a previous occasion, but the actual grabbing was the same time when he exposed himself and actually grabbed me from behind,’ said Mrs Turley.

She said he was aggressive and rude to her, asking her to bring him dinner or make his tea.
But it was in June 2008 that he is alleged to have called her into his office and said: ‘Because I want to f*** you over my desk.’
Mrs Turley told the panel: ‘I’m from a deprived working area and I was devastated.
‘Most nights coming home and on Sundays not wanting to face the next day.
‘The harassment started back up again because he was thinking I was going to say something and made my life and working environment unbearable to try to make me finish on my own.
‘But when I didn’t report it he started up an onslaught of sexual innuendo and text messages again because he got away with it the first time.’

The panel heard Igbokwe would ‘make eyes’ at her when they were working in the same room and ask her to meet at local hotels.
Even when she had left her job and was pursuing legal action against Igbokwe she claims the harassment didn’t stop.
She received pornographic emails, which were sometimes opened by her husband and children, and was told by friends they had seen a suspicious silver Mercedes following her.
‘It was just unreal, my life. I’m trying to start to get it back together, but it’s still there. I just want to shut the book on it,’ she said.
‘I feel I have moved on a lot, but to talk about it, when I go into any detail and depth I get upset because I think was there anything that I did,’ she added. I am a lot stronger person now for what I have done.’

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India Criminalizes Homosexuality

India’s Supreme Court has ruled gay sex as a criminal offence which is punishable with prison.

The ruling reversed a 2009 decision of the Delhi High Court, which decriminalised relations between people of the same sex.

Announcing its decision on Wednesday, the supreme court said it was up to parliament to legislate on the issue and upheld the constitutional validity of Section 311 of India’s penal code - which dates back to 1860.


Protestors outside the Supreme Court after it ruled that a colonial-era law criminalising homosexuality will remain in effect

The code bans “carnal acts against the order of nature”, widely interpreted to mean gay sex, which can be punished by up to 10 years in jail.

The rule dates back to the days of British colonial rule in India, a country which is now the world’s largest democracy.

“Such a decision was totally unexpected from the top court. It is a black day,” Arvind Narrain, a lawyer for the Alternative Law Forum gay rights group told reporters.

“We are very angry about this regressive decision of the court.”


Gay rights activists shout slogans after the annoucement

A spokesman for gay rights charity Stonewall tells HuffPost UK: "This decision will come as a huge disappointment to equality campaigners in India and around the world.

"We'll continue to support activists in India who are fighting every single day to repeal this antiquated and draconian law."

According to the BBC, the law has rarely – if ever - been used to prosecute anyone for consensual sex, though it has often been used by the police to harass homosexuals.

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I live in a country where gay sex is illegal but rape is accepted and where homophobics preach on national tv. I love my India #spit #Sec377

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Thank God India is clamping down on important issues like Gay sex. Good thing there aren't rapes, murders and corruption to worry about.

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The decision could now be appealed through a so-called "curative petition", which would be heard by a panel of five judges, Reuters writes.

Mohammad Abdul Rahim Quraishi, a spokesman for the All India Muslim Personal Law Board welcomed the decision.

"There is no space for homosexuality in our social setup. It is a sin, it is a heinous crime," he said, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The 2009 ruling which decriminalised gay sex was the result of a case brought by the Naz Foundation, an Indian sexual rights organisation which said the law was hindering its battle to reduce the transmission of HIV.

The announcement comes almost a year to the date after the death of a 23-year-old gang rape victim, which sent women's rights to the top of India's social agenda. Four men found guilty of her death were sentenced to death in September.






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Imo State Police arrest serial killer behind the death of a 12 year old girl

A 34-year-old man, identified as Chichi, a native of Nkwerre has been arrested for abducting a 12-year-old girl, who he allegedly raped to death and dumped in a disused well.
The decomposing body of the victim, who was declared missing two months ago, was  discovered after the suspect who had earlier gone into hiding, was apprehended by the police.

While parading the suspect before journalists yesterday, Imo State Police Commissioner, Muhammad Musa Katsina, alleged that the suspect was a serial rapist, saying he had been banished from his village for similar offence.

According to him, the suspect allegedly lured the victim to his one room apartment in a deserted building, where he held her captive and raped her repeatedly and thereafter strangled her an dumped her body in a disused well to conceal the crime.

The police commissioner further disclosed that the principal suspect, who had fled to Umugba village in Abia State later sneaked back into the community and fell into the hands of the command’s ambush squad who had been trailing him.

According to Katsina, the arrest of the suspect and interrogation revealed that after he had abducted the girl, he took her to a very remote but deserted building where he kept her in captivity, using the opportunity to rape her until she died. The suspect then dragged his victim’s lifeless body to a deep well and dumped it. The corpse has been identifed and brought out for autopsy.

Meanwhile, the suspect who confessed to the crime revealed that his victim was one of the little children in the neighbourhood that used to greet him each time while passing through their compound.
“But on that fateful day, she followed me to my house and asked me to give her my phone and while she was operating the phone, the spirit of rape came upon me and I forcefully raped her and I held her on the throat to stop her from shouting but when I noticed that she was no more struggling, I thought that she had fainted so when I finished I locked her in the room and went out.

“When I came back and discovered that she was dead, I wrapped her up with clothes and waited until 1.30am when everywhere was quiet and dragged her out and dumped her.




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