An enduring principle that can help rescue the economy. From a distance it looked like an ordinary broken stone. But when farm manager, Adrian Sutton, got closer, he realised that the piece of rock surrounded by cobbles of different sizes, was not shaped by accident. Its symmetrical design formed an axe-head that could fit into a large hand. It was later identified by experts as having been made during the earlier Stone Age between about 400,000 and a million years ago. They

Threatening the unifying potential and benefits of a radical economic overhaul. Radical economic transformation (RET) has been around for about half a decade although the need for it has been evident for decades more. This time it has come with a fanfare of bullhorns, town criers, aspirant emperors and empresses; and some hysteria in a clear strategic attempt to recapture political initiative; to unify a fractured ruling party and deflect attention from its beleaguered leader

Is the focus on the role of capital too singular and misplaced? You have to hand it to the capital supremacists. They have convinced many, including a good number of naïve political policy makers, that capital creates jobs, economic growth and prosperity – in its availability, accumulation, concentration, control and deployment. Small wonder then that those same policy makers will see control of capital as the quick and easy instrument to uplifting the masses, not only feedin