TOM EATON: Herman Mashaba’s legacy — hate propped up by carefully curated statistics
Imagine if the former Joburg mayor had tweeted about crimes committed by gays or Jews
28 October 2019 - 19:25
Say what you like about outgoing Johannesburg mayor Herman Mashaba — the man owns his bigotry like few other South Africans.
Not for him the slippery code-words and cowardly dog-whistles preferred by our more unscrupulous politicians. Not for him claims that he had been misquoted or taken out of context or that it wasn’t ruled to be hate speech and therefore didn’t count as rabble-rousing incitement...
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