JOHANNESBURG – The five best read stories on Alec Hogg’s BizNews.com, Wednesday, August 26 2015:

1. Steel penny drops – ANC refuses to sacrifice local industry for Chinese friendship

2. Dead wrong: Mugabe promises Zim will get China-driven economic growth

3. More Govt intervention flops; Chinese market falls again, Crash now 25%

4. Cees Bruggemans: Is a Recession only a matter of time?

5. ANC shedding support – wants to ‘mend its ways’

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