Dummies

Ha ha, I’d love to buy this guy a drink.

How on earth do you stand there for how many hours next to an untold number of V.I.P’s and not burst out laughing?

Where on earth were the C.I.A, M.I.5 or is it 6? This guy could have … who knows?

My daily read today tell me that the A.N.C employed him, they of course deny this and point the finger at our very own S.A.B.C. who’ve made it quite clear that they have their own signers in a separate studio (which I believe.)

My newspaper also reports that “The Deaf Federation of South Africa said it has warned the A.N.C about the man more than a year ago after a member complained.”

It was apparently all unintelligible gobbledygook, but surely he could have been signing “let’s declare war on China” or ” I never really knew Madiba but … ” the possibilities are endless.

Anyway, one national newspaper claims to know his name, if they read this buy him a beer on me 🙂

7 thoughts on “Dummies”

  1. I rather suspect your sentiments are share by the vast majority of mainstream media types in both Canada and the USA. They have all leapt on this story like a pack of drowning rats finding an oar in the water.
    I think the majority here were somewhat underwhelmed by the general debacle of the football stadium, the booing, gasbagging, interminable 4 hour carry on, shouting, hooting, selfie taking etc etc.
    Most here found it ‘disrespectful’ at best at a memorial, however ‘differently’ Africans do it! It went down like a lead balloon here, even leftie Public TV were struggling!
    Remember, Yanks are terribly anal about death, people aren’t allowed to ‘die’ here!! New Orleans is the only place with jolly funerals and they’re all black!
    (By God I’m being too hideously polite here!)
    Net result, they devoted very little time to the story of the memorial itself on the news programmes but had allocated hours of time to talking heads most of which obviously preferred not to comment except a few tame TV ‘houseboys’!
    They grabbed the ‘signer’ as a brilliant story that would amuse their audience without being ‘disrespectful’ to Mandela and have cheerfully done it to death.

    I must say I thought there was something wrong at the time but dismissed it assuming he wasn’t signing it in English but some gobbledegook local language and getting a bit carried away!

    Brilliant story though, just shows you how easy it would have been to assassinate the lot of them in the VIP area. Pity, what a wasted chance!!!

  2. Today’s the day that my local city council are holding their very own memorial. It’s going to be at the stadium where I watch the rugby games, most recently the rugby 7’s this past weekend, it holds just over 45,000, I doubt if it will be big enough!

    There are of course plans to bus the overflow to other venues, I’ll be giving the area a very wide berth today.

  3. The signer has been interviewed by both BBC and Sky news – claimíng he is a genuine signer but suffered a schizophrenic moment at the memorial do. Yeah, right!

  4. Credit where credit’s due. If this bloke is not a genuine signer he must have cojones the size of watermelons to blag it in front of the world’s meeja at such an event. There again you may say that the ‘great and the good’ do that sort of thing every day.

    OZ

  7. Soutie :

    There are of course plans to bus the overflow to other venues, I’ll be giving the area a very wide berth today.

    Oh was I an unlucky puppy today or what?

    I had a call to go and help a customer who’s business is a couple of kilos from the stadium, no problem getting there, I did my wide berth thing and got there in reasonably good time, when I left at 3.30pm, the roads were a nightmare, not only was the traffic at almost rush hour levels (which is really normally a case of stopping twice at a red robot instead of once) but the stadium roads were in FIFA 2010 ‘lockdown.’

    I mean they NEVER shut that many roads for a Test match, never mind our super rugby games or last weekend’s 7’s. No this was Sepp Blatter mode, the only open route for me (Kempston road) was chock-a-block, what would normally take me 5 minutes took me 25!

    But hey, I’ve lived to tell the tale, only a couple more days of this to go and we’ll be back to normal.

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