The BRICS grouping is reshaping global dynamics and offering new opportunities for the Global South, as shared through personal insights and reflections of Dr Iqbal Survé. Image: Supplied
Over the last two decades, we have entered a profoundly different period in global history, the era of a multipolar world. The emergence of the BRICS grouping, which represents around 40% of the world’s population and GDP, is significant because, for the first time, it offers people from the Global South a genuine opportunity to benefit from the growing wealth of the world. I have never seen BRICS as being opposed to the West. On the contrary, for many years, BRICS has supported globalisation. Remembering Thomas Friedman’s The World Is Flat, the sharing of information, resources, knowledge, and technology has the potential to create immense wealth for the entire world. This is the promise of BRICS and of a multipolar world.
The BRICS Heads of State Summit One of the singular privileges of my participation, whether through the BRICS Business Forum, the BRICS Business Council, the BRICS
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