JOHANNESBURG - The five best read stories on Alec Hogg's BizNews.com, Sunday, December 7 2014:

1. Load Shedding schedules - plan ahead and Eskom cuts become bearable

2. Astro-tourists flock to Africa's darkest place for a ‘celestial safari'

3. The year of Ebola - sad lessons that prove power of preventive health

4. Goodbye Brian Dames - now consider the real reasons he quit Eskom

5. Want to invest offshore, not sure how? Click here to watch Biznews Global Share Portfolio Webinar

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