WORDS MADE VISIBLE
THEY’RE two of the women we see whenever the president, the minister of health or the minister of police go on national television to give us updates about Covid-19 – the women at the bottom of our screens who interpret every word coming from the leaders’ mouths.
The task they must perform is simple: translating everything into sign language for the hard of hearing.
Yet while it may be simple it’s by no means easy: miss one vital instruction or life-altering law and they won’t have done their job properly.
But Nicoline du Toit and Andiswa Gebashe are, so to speak, old hands at the game now.
‘You can’t accept a job if you aren’t wholly
