Mandy de Waal Interviews De(m)on Maas on Identity Politics in SA

…and the firebrand columnist doesn’t pull his punches during their conversation:

“You need to be dead and white to make the headlines in Beeld,” says Deon Maas. “If you are dead and black you won’t make Beeld. What this does to Beeld readers is it makes them think that there is a genocide going on against them. The media perpetuates a lot of the old apartheid thinking with its divisive content.”

Maas, who refers to himself as De(m)on Maas isn’t going to win any love with this one. But Maas should be used to being the centre of a storm. The author of “Witboy in Africa” was fired from Rapport in 2007 for writing a column on religious tolerance. Maas called for the Constitution not to discriminate against Satanists and did so in a media read by Christian zealots. Positioned as provocative, perhaps the reality is that Maas says the unspeakable to those who don’t want to hear his truth.

• Complete article at The Daily Maverick

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