Twitter slates Tbo Touch after comparing himself to a beggar

Thabo ‘Tbo Touch’ Molefe has found himself on the wrong side of Twitter after comparing himself to a beggar. CEO of Touch Warwick Wines and founder of online radio, Touch HD, Touch recently took to Twitter to enlighten his followers on the difference between himself and a beggar on the streets.

“The only difference between the guy I just drove pass begging in streets and myself is our mental disposition. Let’s change how we think,” said Touch, receiving backlash from his followers, who said he was “out of touch with reality”.

“Life is harder than you make it sound Touch. Trust. No one starts out in life with the negative intention of ending up begging on the street,” said one of his followers, while most said he had forgotten that it was not an easy task to get rich in South Africa.

These were some of the reactions on Twitter:

“This statement hurts so much not everyone will be rich the way he is. We from different backgrounds and that affects our progress.”

“The more I read this statement from Touch the more upset I get. It’s rough out there man for most of us. Anyone can end up on the streets.”

“Dude! He makes it seem like people just wake up and choose to be poor and live in poverty.”

“The ‘deep fakeness’ of this tweet is about as fake as your twang.”

“When I first saw this I thought hmmmm celeb trying to look smart but it backfires….. I’m pretty sure he thought he was sounding smart.”

“It hurts me too. It ignores the stubborn facts of privilege and structural inequality. Poverty is a man-made problem, Nelson Mandela.”

Even Maps Maponyane and Florence Masebe shared their thoughts on Touch’s tweet.

Some, however, defended him, and said people needed to read his tweet differently. What he meant was that a person should not live their lives depending on handouts, they argued.

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