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Bolsonaro gets waxed in a Brazilian paradox

Lula triumphs, markets panic

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WATCH: Is Brics still relevant for South African agriculture?

We explore export opportunities across the bloc

WANDILE SIHLOBO: Missing Brics in South Africa’s export wall

Expanding intra-Brics trade ties is vital for South Africa's agricultural sector

The week ahead: ANC candidate crisis heads to court

Your political and economic calendar for the days to come

National flags of BRICS countries: South Africa, India, Brazil, Russia and China (L-R) are seen on September 18, 2021 in Zhengzhou, Henan Province of China. The 15th BRICS summit is set to run from August 22nd to 24th in Johannesburg. (Photo by Li Qingsheng/VCG via Getty Images)

Carpe per diem: how Brics has lost its clout

The gathering of the Brics foreign ministers in New Delhi last week was an exercise in irrelevance

South Africa in the world order. Rawpixel/Currency collage

How South Africa can win in the new world order  

Hint: it will require more diplomatic hard work and a shift in allegiances away from the Brics towards the G20 bloc

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Now the party is over, who washes the G20 dishes? 

The G20 event was marked most by US and Chinese absentia. These absences send a message – that South Africa is ignorable, despite the pomp.

Embraer. Picture: supplied

How Brazil’s classroom-to-cockpit vision shows what South Africa has lost 

The lesson from Brazil’s Embraer is simple: industrial innovation begins in the classroom and survives only when competence outranks politics

US President Donald Trump. Picture: Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images

Why South African investors are shrugging off Trump’s tariffs

Trump’s new 30% tariff threat has elicited very little market response. Is it because he has a reputation for chickening out?