JOHANNESBURG – The five best read stories on Alec Hogg’s BizNews.com 7 December:

1. This is SA’s future: What Friday’s double credit rating downgrade means

2. Matthew Lester: The dreaded festive D’s – 13th cheque, broke in Jan

3. Australia to entrepreneurs: Here’s your Visa, please bring your ideas to us

4. Chris Duncan: Nigeria Black Monday. Uncertainty continues

5. France moves radically right – Le Pen’s National Front in stunning victory

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