JOHANNESBURG – The five best read stories on Alec Hogg’s BizNews.com, Tuesday, 15 August 2017:

1. How world sees SA: Zuma, his ANC friends are ’embarrassed idiots’

2. Progress report: One year on, DA-run cities ‘peacefully’ make headway

3. Makhosi Khoza speaks out: Kleptocracy, patronage now the ANC’s defining values

4. Bitcoin price surges past $4,000 after key transaction speed breakthrough

5. Stephen Mulholland: History offers SA hope from ravages of Zuptoids

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