SHUT. UP. eNCA has broken more amazing details pertaining to Thami Jantjie, the sign language interpreter who played air guitar through Nelson Mandela’s Memorial on Tuesday. eNCA reports that Jantjie faced charges of kidnapping, rape, attempted murder, and murder.

BREAKING: alleged fake interpreter faced murder, kidnapping, rape, attempted murder charges. Full story on @eNCAnews at 1:30pm.

— Karyn Maughan (@karynmaughan) December 13, 2013

BREAKING: police and court records reveal that #interpreter Thami Jantjie charged with murder, attempted murder,kidnapping in 2003@eNCAnews — Karyn Maughan (@karynmaughan) December 13, 2013

NPA confirmed existence of murder case against Jantjie, unable to say what happened to it. Case file is empty. @eNCAnews

— Karyn Maughan (@karynmaughan) December 13, 2013

#FakeInterpreter Thami Jantjie has criminal conviction for theft from 1995. He was acquitted of rape in 1994. @eNCAnews

— Karyn Maughan (@karynmaughan) December 13, 2013

Jantjie became upset when I asked him about 2003 murder, attempted murder, kidnapping charges. Asked me "where you get this personal info"

— Karyn Maughan (@karynmaughan) December 13, 2013

This is now a full-blown international diplomatic incident. No man. No man come now. The video of eNCA’s live coverage (their amazing journo, Karyn Maughan broke the story) is above. It’ll cut out at some point – get it while it’s live.

[Source : Twitter]