JOHANNESBURG – The five best read stories on Alec Hogg’s BizNews.com, Tuesday, 23 August 2016:

1. #Oilgate: How insiders stole R1.5bn in sale of SA’s strategic oil stockpile

2. WATCH: Herman Mashaba aloft shoulders as he’s named Joburg mayor

3. #Oilgate outrage: South Africans speak up about oil sale scandal

4. Another Eskom’s 5x cost overrun; now Zuma takes “personal” control of SOEs

5. Sun International joins the SA rush away from Nigeria

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