Fake signer at Mandela event accused in 2003 mob attack
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
JOHANNESBURG -- Just when it seemed the scandal over the bogus sign language interpreter at Nelson Mandela's memorial had run its course, a cousin and three friends say he was part of a mob that accosted two men found with a stolen television and burned them to death by setting fire to tires placed around their necks.
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