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Rickey would rather they retrench into a nostalgia tour of laughs and revelry — he’s even found the tan Chrysler LeBaron they used to ride in.

"If consumers retrench... the entire economy is going to go down with it," he said.

Together, all these steps are seen as a retrenching of U.S. influence globally.

Ndumiso was among hundreds of thousands of workers - both locals and nationals of neighbouring states like Lesotho - who have been retrenched as South Africa's mining industry has gone into decline over the last three decades.

Some companies are opening for fewer hours, and retrenching staff.