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To realise their worth, this country and the continent need to leverage what both have to offer, writes Kuseni Dlamini

This week Sandton in Johannesburg becomes the stage for an international event that aims to redefine global trade patterns, as Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa meet for the 15th Brics Summit.

We can't let anti-West politicking jeapordise our economy, says head of the SA Brics Business Council

Countries in the Sub-Saharan Africa currently rely on the Agoa, which offers duty- and quota-free access to the US market.

South Africa will likely keep its preferential access to US markets because hundreds of American firms are also benefitting, according to the nation’s ambassador to BRICS."I...

SA’s agricultural export earnings will likely soften this year from the 2022 record.

Kenya largely exports articles of apparel under the Agoa pact, while largely importing pharmaceutical products and aircraft from the US.

These past few weeks I’ve been in the United States speaking to a variety of people and organisations with an interest in South Africa. The considerable strain in the relationship between the two countries has been widely apparent, but there are signs that the rift between them may be less insurmountable than it appears.

From Ramaphosa to Mbabula and Lesufi, the party’s capacity for absurdity appears to know no bounds

Last month, at a Brics youth summit in Durban, Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, the ring-mistress of RET resentments, went global in her full-frontal assault on the West, the World Bank, World Trade Organisation, ‘’five South African banks” and “dominant Eurocentric narratives of the world”, writes Tony Leon