Practicing attorney and former president of the Law Society of the Northern Province, C.P Fourie has expressed concern about the Afrikaans interpretation at the murder trial of paralympian Oscar Pistorius describing it as a big problem.
The State’s first witness Michelle Burger took the stand on Monday in the Pretoria High Court to give her testimony of the events during the night of Valentine’s Day last year, when Pistorius killed his model girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
Speaking on Morning Live, Fourie says the interpreter struggled to find the correct English words for what the witness said in Afrikaans and also to translate the full answers of the witness to the court.
He says as a result lots of nuances that the witness described in Afrikaans were lost in translation.
Click below to listen to Fourie’s full interview.
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