Sign language interpreter Andiswa Gebashe has also ‘been’ ministers and speaker of parliament
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Times Select spoke to Gebashe on Wednesday, hours before she delivered the latest lockdown regulations on behalf of the president to the deaf.I don’t know how many times I have been the president, myself. “There’s no Zulu or Xhosa sign language. Sign language is a language that stands on its own that also has its own culture. It is an entire language.
“Before the lockdown, when corona was still in just Italy and America, there was a deaf person who put it on the internet, saying there is this thing called corona. He spelled it out and said this is how it was signed in China. Everyone then followed suit. If you look, whenever they speak about the coronavirus internationally, they are all using the same sign,” she said.
Sign language interpreters usually work in teams so that one can help the other if they trip up on a certain term or figure.
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