Even in the context of this trial, the interpreters have either failed to turn up, or shown themselves to be clumsily unreliable. While there are a number of issues one could add where South Africa is failing its citizens: crime, poor policing, poor service delivery, roads, transport, water, national electricity, corruption at the highest levels, racism at the lowest, interpretation may be a key area where it is not only South Africa that is failing, but many other civilised countries….
