India believes adding new members will strengthen BRICS, says PM Modi as six new members join bloc
Fp Staff • 2 years agoPrime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said that India has always supported the expansion of BRICS and believes that adding new members will strengthen it as an organisation
BRICS will advance common prosperity, lead to equitable world order, says President Ramaphosa
Fp Staff • 2 years agoRamaphosa said the BRICS partners know that poverty, inequality and underdevelopment are the biggest challenges facing humankind and are, therefore, determined that the “partnership must be harnessed to drive an inclusive global economic recovery”
BRICS Summit: PM Modi holds bilateral meeting with South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa
Fp Staff • 2 years agoPM Modi, who is in South Africa to attend the 15th BRICS Summit, will attend open and closed plenary sessions in Johannesburg later today
BRICS Summit in South Africa: Who is invited? What to expect from the meet?
Fp Explainers • 2 years agoPM Narendra Modi and China's Xi Jinping will mark their presence at the BRICS summit in Johannesburg next week. Russia’s Vladimir Putin will attend the meet virtually. The grouping of major developing nations is likely to discuss expansion and reducing the dollar’s dominance in payments
African leaders to visit Kyiv, Moscow next month in a bid to broker peace: South Africa
• 2 years agoLeaders of Zambia, Senegal, the Republic of Congo, Uganda, Egypt and South Africa, will lead the initiative which has been welcomed by the UN
'Flip-flop' Ramaphosa: South African prez says want out of ICC, office eats his words
Umang Sharma • 2 years agoCyril Ramaphosa said ANC took decision that South Africa should pull out of the ICC largely because of the manner in which the court has been seen to be dealing with these types of problems
Watchdog 'clears' South Africa's Ramaphosa over cover-up scandal
Fp Staff • 2 years agoCyril Ramaphosa was reelected as the leader of the ruling African National Congress party in December last year.
South African President Ramaphosa announces cabinet changes amid escalating power crisis
• 2 years agoRamaphosa cited the priority issues that the government would have to address as being load shedding, unemployment, poverty and the rising cost of living and crime and corruption
South Africa declares 'State of Disaster' over electricity crisis
• 2 years agoThe regular massive breakdowns at power stations have led to unprecedented load shedding, with households and business facing scheduled blackout sessions for up to 12 hours a day at times
Explained: The many legal battles involving South Africa’s Jacob Zuma
• 2 years agoFormer South African president Jacob Zuma is alleged to have taken bribes while he was a political figure on the rise in the late 1990s and 2000s, although before he became president in 2009