JOHANNESBURG – The five best read stories on Alec Hogg’s BizNews.com, Thursday, 15 October 2015:

1. All fingers point to Gigaba – Thailand, Aus eat SA tourist lunch

2. ‘El Nino’, industrialisation collide – Africa runs dry

3. Gold bulls return as US economy sputters – sheds dead asset rep

4. BHP shrugs off Glencore – “closures won’t lift sagging prices”

5. DA: Zuma’s new IEC chair ‘close friend’, compromises independence

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