{"id":53070,"date":"2023-08-24T11:42:19","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T11:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/ramaphosas-political-mastery-hailed-as-six-countries-join-brics"},"modified":"2023-08-24T12:49:59","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T12:49:59","slug":"ramaphosas-political-mastery-hailed-as-six-countries-join-brics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/ramaphosas-political-mastery-hailed-as-six-countries-join-brics","title":{"rendered":"Ramaphosa&#8217;s &#8216;political mastery\u2019 hailed as six countries join BRICS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>President Cyril Ramaphosa was hailed for his &#8220;political mastery&#8221; after guiding his BRICS counterparts on who should be allowed in an expanded version of the bloc.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking virtually on Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin mentioned Ramaphosa&#8217;s sleek politics in his efforts to bring partners together to reach consensus.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would like to thank our SA friends for their efforts during our joint work. I would like to point that President Ramaphosa showed unique political mastery as we negotiated all the issues &#8211; even the BRICS expansion,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Putin said the matter of a common BRICS currency would be discussed further but emphasised that member states resolved to work on trading in local currencies.<\/p>\n<p>Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the three-day summit achieved several positive outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As I said, India has always fully supported the expansion of BRICS membership. The addition of new members will further strengthen BRICS as an organisation. It will give our shared efforts a new impact. I am pleased that our teams &#8230; agreed on the guiding principles, standards, criteria and procedures,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He also thanked Ramaphosa for his leadership over the last three days.<\/p>\n<p>From 1 January 2024, Argentina, Ethiopia, Iran and Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt will join the bloc.<\/p>\n<p>Ramaphosa, who is the 2023 chairperson of BRICS, made the announcement on Thursday morning during a session, bringing the summit to a close.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We value the interest of other countries in building a partnership with BRICS. We have tasked our foreign ministers to further develop the BRICS partner country model and a list of prospective partner countries and report by the next summit,&#8221; Ramaphosa said.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, India and China expressed its support for the expansion of the BRICS bloc.<\/p>\n<p>A key attraction of the bloc is the New Development Bank, created in 2015, with the aim of offering an alternative to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.<\/p>\n<p>Current BRICS members &#8211; Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa &#8211; make up a quarter of the global economy, account for a fifth of global trade, and are home to 40% of the world&#8217;s population.<\/p>\n<p>All leaders congratulated the new member countries.<\/p>\n<p>Putin said relevant rules and procedures would be established for new members.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\">South-Africa<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. President Cyril Ramaphosa was hailed for his &#8220;political mastery&#8221; after guiding his BRICS counterparts on who should be allowed in an expanded version of the bloc. Speaking virtually on Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin mentioned Ramaphosa&#8217;s sleek politics in his efforts to bring partners together to reach consensus. &#8220;I would like to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":53069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,8,12,377],"tags":[274,315,72,235,6126,288,275,646,3865],"class_list":["post-53070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-to-homepage","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-south-africa","tag-brics","tag-cyril-ramaphosa","tag-lula-da-silva","tag-politics","tag-south-africa-2","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-xi-jinping"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ramaphosa&#039;s &#039;political mastery\u2019 hailed as six countries join BRICS - South Africa<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"President Cyril Ramaphosa was hailed for his &quot;political mastery&quot; after guiding his BRICS counterparts on who should be a ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/ramaphosas-political-mastery-hailed-as-six-countries-join-brics\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ramaphosa&#039;s &#039;political mastery\u2019 hailed as six countries join BRICS\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President Cyril Ramaphosa was hailed for his &quot;political mastery&quot; after guiding his BRICS counterparts on who should be a ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/ramaphosas-political-mastery-hailed-as-six-countries-join-brics\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"South Africa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-08-24T11:42:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-08-24T12:49:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2023\/08\/sm_1692865066.956569.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"682\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/ramaphosas-political-mastery-hailed-as-six-countries-join-brics#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/ramaphosas-political-mastery-hailed-as-six-countries-join-brics\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Ramaphosa&#8217;s &#8216;political mastery\u2019 hailed as six countries join BRICS\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-08-24T11:42:19+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-08-24T12:49:59+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/ramaphosas-political-mastery-hailed-as-six-countries-join-brics\"},\"wordCount\":394,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/ramaphosas-political-mastery-hailed-as-six-countries-join-brics#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2023\/08\/sm_1692865066.956569.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-South-Africa\",\"BRICS\",\"Cyril Ramaphosa\",\"lula da silva\",\"politics\",\"South-Africa\",\"vladimir putin\",\"xi jinping\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\",\"to-homepage\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/ramaphosas-political-mastery-hailed-as-six-countries-join-brics#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/ramaphosas-political-mastery-hailed-as-six-countries-join-brics\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/ramaphosas-political-mastery-hailed-as-six-countries-join-brics\",\"name\":\"Ramaphosa's 'political mastery\u2019 hailed as six countries join BRICS - South Africa\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/ramaphosas-political-mastery-hailed-as-six-countries-join-brics#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/ramaphosas-political-mastery-hailed-as-six-countries-join-brics#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2023\/08\/sm_1692865066.956569.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-08-24T11:42:19+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-08-24T12:49:59+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"President Cyril Ramaphosa was hailed for his \\\"political mastery\\\" after guiding his BRICS counterparts on who should be a ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/ramaphosas-political-mastery-hailed-as-six-countries-join-brics#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/ramaphosas-political-mastery-hailed-as-six-countries-join-brics\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/ramaphosas-political-mastery-hailed-as-six-countries-join-brics#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2023\/08\/sm_1692865066.956569.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2023\/08\/sm_1692865066.956569.jpg\",\"width\":1024,\"height\":682,\"caption\":\"Ramaphosa's 'political mastery\u2019 hailed as six countries join BRICS\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/ramaphosas-political-mastery-hailed-as-six-countries-join-brics#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Ramaphosa&#8217;s &#8216;political mastery\u2019 hailed as six countries join BRICS\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/\",\"name\":\"South Africa\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Ramaphosa's 'political mastery\u2019 hailed as six countries join BRICS - South Africa","description":"President Cyril Ramaphosa was hailed for his \"political mastery\" after guiding his BRICS counterparts on who should be a ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/ramaphosas-political-mastery-hailed-as-six-countries-join-brics","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Ramaphosa's 'political mastery\u2019 hailed as six countries join BRICS","og_description":"President Cyril Ramaphosa was hailed for his \"political mastery\" after guiding his BRICS counterparts on who should be a ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/ramaphosas-political-mastery-hailed-as-six-countries-join-brics","og_site_name":"South Africa","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2023-08-24T11:42:19+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-08-24T12:49:59+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1024,"height":682,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2023\/08\/sm_1692865066.956569.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/ramaphosas-political-mastery-hailed-as-six-countries-join-brics#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/ramaphosas-political-mastery-hailed-as-six-countries-join-brics"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Ramaphosa&#8217;s &#8216;political mastery\u2019 hailed as six countries join BRICS","datePublished":"2023-08-24T11:42:19+00:00","dateModified":"2023-08-24T12:49:59+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/ramaphosas-political-mastery-hailed-as-six-countries-join-brics"},"wordCount":394,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/ramaphosas-political-mastery-hailed-as-six-countries-join-brics#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2023\/08\/sm_1692865066.956569.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-South-Africa","BRICS","Cyril Ramaphosa","lula da silva","politics","South-Africa","vladimir putin","xi jinping"],"articleSection":["all news","head lines","homepage-english","policy","to-homepage"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/ramaphosas-political-mastery-hailed-as-six-countries-join-brics#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/ramaphosas-political-mastery-hailed-as-six-countries-join-brics","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/ramaphosas-political-mastery-hailed-as-six-countries-join-brics","name":"Ramaphosa's 'political mastery\u2019 hailed as six countries join BRICS - South Africa","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/ramaphosas-political-mastery-hailed-as-six-countries-join-brics#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/ramaphosas-political-mastery-hailed-as-six-countries-join-brics#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2023\/08\/sm_1692865066.956569.jpg","datePublished":"2023-08-24T11:42:19+00:00","dateModified":"2023-08-24T12:49:59+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"President Cyril Ramaphosa was hailed for his \"political mastery\" after guiding his BRICS counterparts on who should be a ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/ramaphosas-political-mastery-hailed-as-six-countries-join-brics#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/ramaphosas-political-mastery-hailed-as-six-countries-join-brics"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/ramaphosas-political-mastery-hailed-as-six-countries-join-brics#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2023\/08\/sm_1692865066.956569.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2023\/08\/sm_1692865066.956569.jpg","width":1024,"height":682,"caption":"Ramaphosa's 'political mastery\u2019 hailed as six countries join BRICS"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/ramaphosas-political-mastery-hailed-as-six-countries-join-brics#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Ramaphosa&#8217;s &#8216;political mastery\u2019 hailed as six countries join BRICS"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/","name":"South Africa","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}