JOHANNESBURG – The five best read stories on Alec Hogg’s BizNews.com, 29 February 2016:

1. Disinvestment shock: Barclays to sell R120bn Absa, announcement on Tuesday

2. Cathy Buckle: Zimbabwe’s gone beserk. Perpetrators turned victims.

3. Zuma v Gordhan down to the wire: President encourages Hawks investigation

4. Pravin goes on record: Official Statement on SARS, Hawks and “disruptors”

5. Why Barclays is selling Absa: Under-performance in £s only half the story

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