Sign translator at Nelson Mandela's Memorial Service, admitted to a psychiatric hospital - Media

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The sign translator at Nelson Mandela's Memorial Service, who had been accused to be fake, and creating their own signs, has been admitted to a psychiatric hospital, local media report. 

 

Thamsanqa Jantjie's wife reportedly took him to a psychiatric hospital near Johannesburg for a check-up on Tuesday December 18th, and the doctors suggested that he be admitted immediately, Johannesburg's The Star newspaper reports.

"Recent days have already been hard. We've been supportive because he could have experienced a breakdown," Mrs Jantjie is quoted as saying.

Meanwhile the company which employed him to interpret at the memorial have reportedly'vanished'