JOHANNESBURG – The five best read stories on Alec Hogg’s BizNews.com Thursday 23 February 2017

1. How world sees SA: Zuma ‘functionally illiterate on economics’, country ruled by thieves

2. Cape Crawl goes mainstream – time to consider the “remote” model

3. Matthew Lester on Budget – ‘The Great Pretenders’ as SA heads nowhere slowly

4. Can Mashaba’s radical ‘shock and awe’ campaign rescue Johannesburg property owners?

5. Grow wealth in world’s next big property wave – construction has only just started

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