Philani Shange

LAND IS LIFE! It is government that creates better lives! All governments are socialist, albeit at most times just for the few. Elethu izwe! Pho owani lombango?

[Philani Shange @pitsoshange]

@mikassong Idiyothi!!! 😂🤣😂

[Philani Shange @pitsoshange]

@KhandaniM @Afri_core Hhayi Ndlondlo!! This is an economic crisis indicator. There’s not enough money in circulation. This has existed for decades in townships, it’s no innovation. It is driven by impoverished population demands. Musani ukudlala ngathi madoda! ✋

[Philani Shange @pitsoshange]

@ishowstories And he went on substituted him!! 😭😭😭

As a kid I listened to this match on @ukhozi_fm radio! What a night!!

[Philani Shange @pitsoshange]

@AppleMusic algorithms are super wack!👎 You’ll be listening to Tupac, next thing you hear Queen, then boom Khuzani, hhayibo Brenda Fassie>> Pretty Yende >>Sjava>>Dead Prez>>Maphorisa>>Dru Hill>>Freddy Gwala >>Joyous >>Destiny’s Child 😳
Hhayibo what’s cooking with you guys?

[Philani Shange @pitsoshange]

@_rabotoko I meant which year? This year? 😳

[Philani Shange @pitsoshange]

@LetsoaloRant @SizweDhlomo @DALiii_Danger 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 idiyothi!!

[Philani Shange @pitsoshange]

Phophi must sit down and 🤐

[Ayanda Dlodlo @EDAyandaDlodlo]

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[Philani Shange @pitsoshange]

@youtubemusic your app keeps on cutting mid songs. How can I fix this? I have deleted & downloaded but it still does the same cutting nonsense.

[Philani Shange @pitsoshange]

@ManziniZungu_ What’s the meaning of “we have raised a generation that has a terrible relationship with money! It’s not poverty in most cases it is the relationship we have with money.? And who’s “we”? What relationship does your “hell” have with your “it’s not poverty in most cases”?

[Philani Shange @pitsoshange]

Manzini, this is very superficial & unfortunate coming from you, particularly as a business person in a capitalist system. Our relationship with money has always been rooted in poverty. As a black person there’s nothing you can do to escape poverty except to wait for sheer luck.

[Manzini Zungu @ManziniZungu_]

Yes poverty comes from the depth of hell! In the modernity humans have exaggerated the usage and in particular relationship with money.

We have raised a generation that has a terrible relationship with money! It’s not poverty in most cases it is the relationship we have with money.

[Philani Shange @pitsoshange]

@ManziniZungu_ Bafo, I clearly understood you. You cannot mindset your way out of structural poverty. There’s no relationship disorder. The money is enclaved & it’s wrong of you to blame the victim. If you’re black, no psychological gymnastics can save you from poverty, except for sheer luck.

[Philani Shange @pitsoshange]

@MainlandAfrica yet, they fight you when you state that they are big pharma distribution agents.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

If you had trusted the settled science of the day, here is how it would have gone.

1890s: you dose the baby with Bayer's new cough syrup, the non-addictive alternative to morphine, marketed for children. It was heroin. They named it after the German for heroic.

1900s: you rub calomel teething powder on your infant's gums. It is a mercury compound, and it leaves a generation with pink disease. Swollen, peeling hands and feet, screaming for months, and some of them died.

1910s: you cook in Crisco, launched by a soap and candle company, because cottonseed oil is modern and lard is what your mother used. The process that made it solid produced trans fat, banned outright a century later.

1920s: you drink Radithor, certified radioactive water, on prescription. Eben Byers took fourteen hundred bottles for his vitality. His jaw was removed in pieces and he was buried in a lead coffin.

1930s: a chemist dissolves a new sulfa drug in diethylene glycol, which is antifreeze. It kills 107 people, mostly children, and only then does America give the FDA power to demand safety testing.

1940s: your doctor lights a Camel in the surgery. More doctors smoke them than any other brand, and the advert runs in the Journal of the American Medical Association, which sold him the page.

1950s: DDT is sprayed over your kitchen, your garden and your children at school. The man who found its insecticidal properties has already been given a Nobel Prize.

1960s: your wife takes thalidomide for morning sickness because it is remarkably safe. More than ten thousand children are born with missing and shortened limbs.

1970s: the country puts down the butter and picks up the margarine, on the instruction of the American Heart Association. The fat everybody switched to was banned in 2015 as unsafe at any level.

1980s: the fat comes out of everything and sugar goes back in to make it edible. Obesity begins a climb it has never come off.

1990s: your father is prescribed OxyContin, because fewer than one per cent get addicted. The company later pleads guilty to criminal misbranding, and the overdose count runs into hundreds of thousands.

2000s: you take Vioxx for your knee. It is pulled in 2004, and the FDA's own safety officer estimates tens of thousands of excess heart attacks.

Not one of those was fringe. Every one had a professional body, a literature and a man in a white coat standing behind it.

Nobody who followed that advice was stupid. They were obedient, to the most qualified people available.

Settled is a word about money. It means the questions stopped being funded, so they stopped being asked.

So which of today's instructions will your grandchildren read out in disbelief.

The oil washed in hexane and built into every cell you own. The statin that blocks the pathway making your hormones, to prevent one heart attack per hundred people. The injection where a third of the loss is muscle. The infant formula built out of vegetable oil.

All settled. None of it funded to be otherwise.

[Philani Shange @pitsoshange]

@SageGroupZA you have the worst service in the market. Your online service agents are clueless, rude, incompetent and untrained. Nobody understands your system within your very own organisation.

[Philani Shange @pitsoshange]

@SabeloChalufu “Zishaphi Baba?”
“Zithini ngawe Baba?”
“Ithini i-ghost Baba”
“Yini iqombothi Baba?”

In basic English, “What is going on Big Man?, what did I do”

[Philani Shange @pitsoshange]

In the context of South Africa’s enclaved capitalism, what does it it mean to be artificially rich? Artificially rich as opposed to what?

[Sihle Mavuso @ZANewsFlash]

In Jacob Zuma’s latest purge and reshuffle of his uMkhonto Wesizwe party, Duduzane Zuma, the twin of sacked Duduzile Zuma, has been appointed first deputy president. A boy with a taste for the good life, Duduzane’s politics are more barren than his sister’s. In his early adult life he was donated to the Gupta family by his father as part of the State Capture package deal. The Guptas made him artificially rich.
https://t.co/QxQEdgg0zT

[Philani Shange @pitsoshange]

We cannot give up on the state!!!

[Dr. Gumani Tshimomola @TshimomolaGK]

The destruction and collapse state capacity in the past 30 years is scary. Here is a window to get some sense.

Thread 🧵: (1986)

1. African Metals Corporation

Produced pig iron at Newcastle, Ferris alloys at Meyerton & dolomite in Oretoria.

No of Employees: 143

Parent: State

[Philani Shange @pitsoshange]

@JojoNqandela @MxolisiBob So what exactly are you disputing? Or I am missing something?

[Philani Shange @pitsoshange]

@melomagolego People of theatrics!

[Philani Shange @pitsoshange]

@sikimsuseni You’re playing, in some municipalities in KZN, they charge 10k. North West also R3K regions.