THE BRICS National Security Advisors meet in the country tomorrow and Tuesday as part of the build-up to the much-anticipated summit of the bloc in KwaZulu-Natal next month.
Ordinarily, such a meeting would pass by without much ado. However, the increasing importance of BRICS in rapidly changing geopolitics draws greater attention to the goings-on in this five-member strategic alliance between Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.
The BRICS National Security Advisors meeting was first initiated by the then chair, Russia, in 2009, and has been held 12 times so far, the last time being in Beijing last year.
China said “BRICS was born in the historical tide of the
