JOHANNESBURG – The five best read stories on Alec Hogg’s BizNews.com, Tuesday, August 18 2015:

1. Reasons Rand is tanking – Emerging Markets, China, Commodities (not Zuma)

2. Cape Town City fighting to avoid Gauteng e-toll R9bn to R59bn cost debacle

3. Activist investor buys into 43% price tumble, ups Glencore stake to $1.6bn

4. Dawie Roodt: Govt’s ‘confused ideology’ fuelling crime, unemployment

5. Cees Bruggemans: Good Ship SA – change the captain, change the future

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