JOHANNESBURG – The five best read stories on Alec Hogg’s BizNews.com, 1 March 2016:

1. Barclays sale of Absa: An abject lesson in the cost of overpaying – and not

2. Peace breaks out between Zuma, Gordhan; SA relishes calm, Rand strengthens

3. Anthea Jeffery: Creeping land nationalisation no poverty solution

4. Matthew Lester: Sugar tax not so sweet. Answer lies in VAT.

5. Emigration and the Rand drops SA’s Dollar Millionaires by a fifth in 2015

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