JOHANNESBURG – The five best read stories on Alec Hogg’s BizNews.com, Wednesday, 20 December 2017:

1. Paul O’Sullivan: Why I’m now optimistic SA will win the war against crime

2. Ramaphosa’s 8-point battle plan to fix SA economy: QUICK SNAPSHOTS!

3. Steinhoff Update: Warts exposed to bankers owed R160bn as execs petition for survival

4. “Destabilised” Steinhoff exposes its warts and the market is worried

5. Best of 2017: Stock market statistics shatter ‘white monopoly capital’ myth

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