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Former Union Minister and elder Congress person Anand Sharma met visiting Deputy President of South Africa Paul Mashatile and discussed a big of issues, including the relation of the Global South and the BRICS countries successful addressing the contiguous planetary challenges.
Mr. Mashatile, the Deputy President of the African National Congress, is connected an authoritative sojourn to India.
During the gathering precocious connected Monday (June 1, 2026) evening, Mr. Mashatile referred to the peculiar and historical relations betwixt India and South Africa and the inspiration some countries drew from Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela.
Issues of shared involvement and concerns were discussed successful the gathering and the request of moving unneurotic to and the relation of the Global South and BRICS countries to code the contiguous challenges was specifically emphasised.
The BRICS, initially comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, expanded successful 2024 to see Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, and the UAE, with Indonesia joining successful 2025.
The BRICS has emerged arsenic an influential grouping arsenic it brings unneurotic 11 large emerging economies of the world, representing astir 49.5% of the planetary population, astir 40 per cent of the planetary GDP and astir 26% of the planetary trade.
Mr. Mashatile engagements successful India see a telephone connected by External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar and a gathering with Vice president C.P. Radhakrishnan.
The South African person volition besides sojourn Hyderabad wherever helium volition beryllium hosted by Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu. He volition besides conscionable concern leaders and academics successful Hyderabad.
