Consumers, businesses brace for tough year

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SELEBI-PHIKWE: Consumer prices are expected to drop in the first half of 2009, but the effects of the global economic recession will continue to bite.

Mining has been hit hard with giants, Debswana and BCL, resorting to retrenchment to cut costs.

The credit crunch in the latter half of 2008 and depressed metal prices brought about uncertainty, pointing to a tough start to the New Year. For BCL, the year ended on a low note with a forced shutdown that will cost the company millions of pula.

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