The best read stories on Biznewz.biz in the week ended Friday 30 August.

Dave King settles with SARS, agrees to pay R706m for income tax liability: The end of a 15 year saga between SA's best known tax fugitive and the SA Revenue Services.

Advtech is double the size with 5 times the profit, but only worth half of Curro. Why?: An investment story that captured our community's attention. Perhaps because Curro is such a popular share.

Joffe: Bidvest has war chest of over R14bn, twinkle in his eye at mention of Natie Kirsh's Jetro: Context and an interview with SA's most celebrated entrepreneur. Joffe is always great value.

The journo and the whistleblower: A decade later revealing what the Rand Commission should actually have told South Africa about the currency's collapse in 2001/2. 

The flourishing members of business's second chance at life club: My debut Undictated column for Business Day looks at how people change after facing down the Grim Reaper

The ghost of the no show AMCU haunts Joburg's 2013 Mining Lekgotla: As mentioned above, I spent two days at the event. The ghost of the absent new trade union was everywhere

Knott-Craig opens up on Please Call Me court case: The founder and former CEO of Vodacom has been pilloried in the media. He gave his perspective in this interview. 

Unrecognised Industrial Action of smokers "go slow strike": An interesting blog by a CEO who took a rather un-PC look at what smoker's are costing companies - it's like a "go slow".

Some of my best friends are feminists, but don't put them in a room together: A part tongue-in-cheek, part serious look at the burn the bra brigade by our young blogger Jes Edgson.

First 25 000 links in Knott-Craig's dream of connecting every African: The other Alan K-C who has dusted himself off after the Mxit matter, now dedicating himself to worthiest of causes

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