JOHANNESBURG – The five best read stories on Alec Hogg’s BizNews.com, Wednesday, 9 August 2017:

1. Dummy’s guide: Bell Pottinger – Gupta London agency, creator of WMC

2. How it happened: President Jacob Zuma survives eighth no-confidence vote

3. Bell Pottinger antibody. Garth Japhet: reconciling SA, one story at a time.

4. Mailbox: Open letter to Gigaba – why I’m not giving you more tax

5. Open letter to the “calamitous” Faith ‘Fly-my-Family’ Muthambi

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