JOHANNESBURG - The five best read stories on Alec Hogg's Biznews.com, Wednesday, April 16 2014:

1. Exciting new payment tool turns your phone into a credit card machine

2. Jani Allan: Oscar Pistorius, Eugene Terre'Blanche cut from same cloth

3. Why SARB fined SA's Big Four banks R125m - and the unintended consequence of more red tape

4. Nkandla funded instead of Soweto upgrades: DA

5. Consolidation and deals aplenty in the property industry

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