President Cyril Ramaphosa will today travel to Russia to attend a BRICS summit.
Ramaphosa and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, will also hold a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the summit.
This will be the first BRICS summit since the expansion of the bloc.
The group now covers 43% of the world’s population and 27% of the global GDP.
Putin will use the summit to promote Russia.
He has challenged members of BRICS to look at using national currencies when trading with each other.
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