Spirits of Dumb and Deaf - Max Gaddis

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/12/12/world/africa/mandela-memorial-fake-intepreter/index.html?hpt=iaf_c2

A sign language interpreter at the Nelson Mandela memorial was accused of being a fake on the grounds that his signs were totally meaningless. South Africa's minister of disabled women, people and children says there is no set standard for sign language and each person speaks a different dialect, but the national director of the Deaf Federation of South Africa says these signs also come with facial expressions, which the interpreter, Jantjie, did not use to accompany his signing. He also says that no other interpreter has heard of or met Jantjie and he is not widely known as an interpreter. Also, no one even knows who he works for or how he got hired for the memorial. He says he works under a woman and the name of the company is called "SA Interpreters" and that is all he has said. He didn't give any information about himself saying that his info was with the company. African National Congress says they did not hire him for the event because it was the state that organized the event. The state says they didn't use ANC's process of hiring because it they aren't the same and they have used Jantjie for other occasions. They also say that the conflict of Jantjie's work has never come up. Jantjie says that if the Deaf Federation of SA wants to say something about his work, why didn't they say it when he first began working, why now? Jantjie says he is suffering from schizophrenia and he is going through treatment.

I think this is a just another way to take advantage of disabled people, and why would they give a schizophrenic the responsibility of making deaf people understand what is going on? Why did they make his position so that people depended on him? I also want to know why the company he works for (if it exists) let him continue working when they found out his condition.