Reaching out from the Global South
IMAGINE a world in which women's rights alongside LGBT rights have been abolished, as they are in Iran? South Africa's constitution replaced overnight with a system based upon 'supremacy of the ruling party'. The opposition rolled into a new "Gove...
LAST MONTH Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the UAE were invited to join a grouping of 'top emerging economies' known as BRICS dreamt up by Goldman Sachs economist Jim O'Neill. The only thing linking the bloc previously was their economic status. Nowadays, the addition of six ne...
REVELATIONS of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin's temper tantrums, with a threat of armed aggression against the Republic, including a possible declaration of war, have come to light, after a judge ordered that President Ramaphosa's affidavit on an ICC arrest warrant be made public this week. The...
NO SOONER had Pretoria (Tshwane) shown the world that it cared very little for the UN Charter codifying the major principles of international relations, from sovereign equality of States to the prohibition of the use of force in international relations, it found itself facing a legal problem pres...
EVER since the term was coined by Chief Economist at Goldman Sachs, Jim O'Neill in 2001, as an acronym for countries, which were 'deemed to be at a similar stage of newly advanced economic development', the BRICS grouping has been little more than, a disparate think-tank of dictators, oligarchs,...
IT WAS never meant to be anything more than a political union, similar in status to the non-aligned states. Economically, only two of the five BRICS nations, China and India are doing well, the rest are all currently in junk status. Russia was junked in 2015, followed by Brazil in 2016 and South...