[TOP STORY] Brics plans ambitious but unrealistic

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‘I predict nothing much will happen except rhetoric. It's too little, too late and I am always disappointed when the Brics say they're going to do something and they never really do,’ says Patrick Bond, distinguished professor of sociology at the University of Johannesburg.

22 Aug 2023 9AM English South Africa Business News · Politics

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