Mamello Matikinca

South African Economist

[Caster Semenya @MightyCaster]

So according to World Athletics and it's members I'm a male when it comes to 400m,800m, 1500m and 1600m! Then a female in 100m,200m, and long distance events.😂🤣😂🤣 what a research. What kind of a fool would do that? Hai mathata man, bare sepela o di bone.👀

[Gina Schoeman Ackermann @ginaschoeman]

Great piece by @mamokete30 here... Never has a truer word been spoken (sadly) https://t.co/zki3ebujLU

[Zikhona Valela @valavoosh]

Should we go into the details of these 125 years?

[Razia Khan @raziakkhan]

And also, pls stop giving NDZ a hard time for saving lives.
Smoking is no virtue

[sigh @simonruff]

this is one of those times when you see a take so bad you want to unfollow everyone who follows them

[Mamello Matikinca @MMatikinca]

BUSANI NGCAWENI: The injustice of COVID-19 for women in the workplace https://t.co/x20Im61bKD via @ewnreporter

[Michael Sachs @MichaelSachs99]

Very odd headline, no? Has nothing to do with the content of the story. My alternative headline: ⁦@BDliveSA⁩ backs big tobacco’s bid for divide-and-rule. https://t.co/wSfWV7S7FJ

[Bulelwa Mabasa @mabasa_bulelwa]

I've stopped stopping my kids coming in for hugs and kisses during zoom calls.Lets stop pretending we aren't nurturing, breastfeeding, cooking, multi-tasking while we run empires and rescue the world.Our male counterparts must know just how much we have to do to do what we do.

[Jonathan Fortun @econchart]

While the pace of outflows from EM has greatly reduced in past few days, the extent and scale of the #COVID19 shock is unprecedented. The level and speed of outflows in around 90 days of 2020 is equivalent to the worst yearly figures on record.

[Alan Hirsch @AlanHirsch2]

We need to be careful about language here. As I understand it, wages are not being cut. Actually what is proposed is that the third year of three generous salary increases be cut back. https://t.co/LctwgwQkXz

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

"This is what happens when you put a narcissistic, megalomaniacal, former reality TV star with a thin skin and a very large temper in charge of the world's most powerful military... You know who else attacks cultural sites? ISIS. The Taliban." - me on Trump/Iran on MSNBC today:

[Tomi T Ahonen Moved to Post, Spoutible & Mastodon @tomiahonen]

Iran War thread 1/25

Trump is risking a war with Iran & #WWIII. Pompeo wants this war. Trump NEEDS a war to distract from his impeachment & ever worse details leaking. So there is a big push for war in Iran. This is a VERY VERY incredibly BIGLY bad idea. A thread about Iran War

[Paul Krugman @paulkrugman]

Objectively, the economic problems are nowhere near as serious as 2008, or even 2001. But we're being led by the gang that couldn't think straight 1/ https://t.co/8Fuclu1bjb

[Mamello Matikinca @MMatikinca]

SA 1Q GDP disappoints by a wide margin(-3.2% q/q and 0% y/y).

[Mamello Matikinca @MMatikinca]

Given the disappointing performance of the South African economy in recent months and downward pressure on the disposable income of households, the modest improvement in consumer confidence during the second quarter of 2019 may also turn out to be short-lived

[Mamello Matikinca @MMatikinca]

Whereas a small majority of consumers now expect the South African economy to be better off in 12 months’ time, the majority of consumers still rate the present time as inappropriate to purchase big-ticket items

[Mamello Matikinca @MMatikinca]

The increase in the overall CCI was marginal and came on the back of an improvement in one of the forward-looking indicators of the CCI, namely the economic outlook index.

[Hugo Pienaar @hugopien]

Sign of strain on the consumer in SA. Tiger Brands CEO says that currently, 80% of company's goods sold are on promotion. Not only does this explain retailer margin dilution, but also the sustained begin CPI (especailly core) inflation trend.